george c. scott poll

A familiar New York intellectual except he wasn't invited to the Trilling, McCarthy, Mailer, Kazin, etc parties.

p cool tcm showed a 'portrait of an actor' on him which was filmed while he was on the set of 'the last run', they compare him to bogart several times which….idk

its here -- 156 views !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxnnPYhHNeE

Have always meant to check out a few episodes of East Side/West Side, which co-starred Cicely Tyson.

Well worth checking out. If anything, go track down the episode where James Earl Jones plays a father whose child is killed by a rat.

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interesting! yea I am reading the bk 'david Susskind: a televised life' & this is discussed somewhat in depth. ep is called "Who Do You Kill?" im a have to check it out

so the Quad in NYC is showing The Savage Is Loose, best described as Scott's "self-distributed incest movie." Alec Baldwin will be discussing it afterward with George's son Campbell!

http://www.cinemaretro.com/index.php?/archives/9328-WE-WANT-OUR-DVD!-THE-SAVAGE-IS-LOOSE-1974-STARRING-GEORGE-C.-SCOTT-AND-TRISH-VAN-DEVERE.html

i'd never heard of the savage is loose before - it sounds utterly deranged

In 1902, John (Scott), his much younger wife Maida (Scott's real-life wife, Trish Van Devere) and their infant son David (played by both Lee Montgomery and John David Carson) are the only survivors of a ship that crashes into the rocky beach of an uncharted island during a violent storm. By 1912, David, now a seemingly happy 12-year-old boy, begins to enter puberty. By the time he is 17, David is consumed by lust for his mother, which drives a wedge between him and his father to the point where they hunt each other down for the affections of the only woman on the island.

and the tagline was 'no woman is an island... forever' which is memorably awful

have you seen it before, morbs?

no, i remember local TV ads for it in '74, but for some reason didn't ask Dad to take me.

really doesn't seem like family entertainment, that's for sure

desert island dicks

incest-fantasy island

swiss family fuckin'-son

to steal a later Woody Allen title, Oedipus Wrecks

nice

I'm going tonight to The Savage Is Loose, I'll be v curious to gauge its batshittery AND to hear Baldwin's approach in interviewing Campbell Scott.

https://quadcinema.com/film/the-savage-is-loose/

p sure I have seen it, don't recall it being too great

I expect few in attendance are expecting it to be great. If I need to see it once, might as well be in a theater as it's 2.35:1 ratio.

V Canby in '74:

A heavily portentous line spoken early in the film by the son (played as an adolescent by Lee H. Montgomery) points the way: "Mother, when I grow up, can we get married?"

Trouble erupts 10 years later when the son, now played by John David Carlson, has started to court his mother in earnest. He leaves orchids by her coconut-shell soup bowl and asks pointed questions on the order of: "Who was Cain's wife?" When Mom and Dad make love, he likes to peek.

Says Mom to Dad in the semi-privacy of their bamboo-walled bedroom: "We've got a lusting male with no outlet." That is, no *satisfactory* outlet. Mom has found that the boy has constructed a curious substitute woman, apparently out of the all-purpose coconut shells, in a jungle hideaway.