Signature • John Simon 1981
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- The film and drama critic John Simon is interviewed at length for a CBS Cable program called "Signature" in 1981. The program director was Michael Albanese, the producer Dolores Danska, and the executive producer Gregory Jackson.
John Simon....1925---2019......Last of a generation.....
While many people might have disagreed with his criticism in 1981, it seems spot on in 2021. He saw in 1981 the evolution of where we are now. Like him or hate him, he's worth reading and hearing out.
He's harsh but there is a lot of truth in the things he says.
And his speech and vocabulary are beautiful.
The host was Greg Jackson. This was one of the truly great shows of the much-missed CBS Cable, from the early 1980s.
John Simon, Neil Postman, Gore Vidal. those were of a different calibre... our culture today does not allow the development of such minds.
He once wrote very funnily about a certain actor: “He is as charming as a broomstick with a smile painted on it”.
This is my Dad's show! He was President of CBS Cable -- one of the first forays into the world of cable tv. I think he shot too high into the "Culture is In", their slogan, and people wanted more fluff. Richard J. Cox came up with the idea of just focusing on the guest and leaving out the image of the interviewer. Interesting for 1980+/-
He was great on the odd couple tv show.
With the accretion of time, Simon's criticism seems even more perceptive.
Always controversial, always interesting.
searing truth!
Throwing shade left and right, holy shit
If "Signature" was revived then it would feature more celebrity guests (Jim Parsons, Tina Fey, Harland Williams, etc....).
it's amazing to think that this guy DID, actually, go a little soft in his last years. his writing in the last published collection of his work that i know, from 1980-2001, is less venomous but also spottier than earlier collections. and on his blog, he actually indicated that he LIKED the Baz Luhrmann film Moulin Rouge! !!! oh my god!!! even he did occasionally like things that were shit haha, though i don't know of any other examples as egregious to me personally as Moulin fu*king Rouge. it's also amusing to think of him probably being tolerant of Basic Instinct, although you can't quite tell from his rather non-committal review, which is basically just a long plot summary.
Moulin Rouge is great.
its been a long time but I remember Luhrmann's ugly, junky camerawork laying waste to every element of the film that might have otherwise worked, and actually robbing the actors of some of their human dignity...you mean the Luhrmann version right? you forgot the ! exclamation mark.
Will somebody come get Palpatine s brother! 😏
HardlineSoul You need to see him talk about how the Star Wars movies are junk and have no redeeming qualities for kids. ua-cam.com/video/Ky9-eIlHzAE/v-deo.html
what month did this aire?
Host?
What a consummate snob...cruel beyond any definition of political correctness..almost a parody of a self conscious intellectual...
AND one of the funniest critics who ever lived...
His collection of pieces on fifties sixties seventies MOVIES INTO FILM...STILL reduces me to helpless FITS of laughter..when I was a kid...until now
Guy was always a pompous jerk.
A CRITIC IS SOMEONE WHO LACKS THE TALENT OF THE CRITICIZED ARTISTS
You mean like Dr. Johnson, Pope, Diderot, Hazlitt, Shaw, Eliot, Poe, Henry James, Edmund Wilson, Woolf, Agee, and Updike - all of whom wrote extensive, enduring criticism?
dude was a hater but he was funny