Some thought Saul Bellow’s deeply pessimistic Mr. Sammler’s Planet to be the work of a tired, cranky old man upon its release in 1970. Was Saul Bellow a misogynist and a racist? And depressed? Geez, there’s a negro pickpocket right there at the beginning ripping off the white folks on a Broadway bus on the […]
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Mr. Eastwood’s Planet
Monday, November 24th, 2008The Bad and the Ugly
Thursday, October 16th, 2008Inevitably playing in my head as I begin reading Blood Meridian is Sergio Leone’s The Good, The Bad and the Ugly. Clint Eastwood squints and leaves Eli Wallach to die and three characters journey endlessly on the deserts of Spain that are standing in for the American West. The movie was made in 1966, and […]
