Better if they'd left out the icky Donald Spoto, the poor man's Kitty Kelley who quotes Frank Merlo as if he'd been an intimate friend, but in reality cannot possibly ever have met him, and Williams' idiot brother, Dakin, who had him locked up in a mental institution, dragged him into a Catholic conversion, then after he was dead had him buried in St. Louis, a place Williams hated, contrary to his will.
@mychemfreak246 The psychiatrist was Dr. Lawrence Kubie, a proponent of the theory that homosexuality was a mental disorder that could be cured. Gore Vidal describes him as "a slick bit of goods on the make among the rich, the famous, the gullible."
@JSC1401 Excuse me, a "genius" isn't determined by the number of plays he wrote but by their quality. He could have written ONLY ONE play and could still be call be genius. If it weren't for Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte wouldn't have been famous or depicted as having talent.
"Having talent" is not a self-sufficiant definition of "genius".
If it weren't for William Thackary's observation of the English society, we would not even know about Jane AUSTEN. Without the recognition of Jane Austen, the Bontë sisters would never have dared write for publication.
@1401JSC do you still doubt it?there is genius in their work.Of course, there are many others who had genius but couldn't emerg because either they didn't have the guts/didn't meet the right people,or simple bad luck!but do we need to debate on something like this?
@1401JSC to tell you the truth, i have read only a streetcar named desire and what mesmerised me is the incredible depth of Blanche.You can clearly see that Blanche is Tennesssee because you can simulate rudeness(Stan) but you can't simulate a pertubed soul. It's one of the most dramatic plays i've ever read among both english and french plays.
Loic t'as une touche :)
stoic1009990283 2 months ago
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yanspartan 2 months ago
Better if they'd left out the icky Donald Spoto, the poor man's Kitty Kelley who quotes Frank Merlo as if he'd been an intimate friend, but in reality cannot possibly ever have met him, and Williams' idiot brother, Dakin, who had him locked up in a mental institution, dragged him into a Catholic conversion, then after he was dead had him buried in St. Louis, a place Williams hated, contrary to his will.
gtimny 10 months ago
What kind of retarded psychiatrist did he go to???!
mychemfreak246 1 year ago
@mychemfreak246 The psychiatrist was Dr. Lawrence Kubie, a proponent of the theory that homosexuality was a mental disorder that could be cured. Gore Vidal describes him as "a slick bit of goods on the make among the rich, the famous, the gullible."
gtimny 10 months ago
Thks for loading
dbrito83 1 year ago
Thanks for uplaoding this. I adore Tennessee Williams.
AngryNewAger 1 year ago
"The critics who made him were about to nbreak him".
Are genii "made" then?
"Great writer" : maybe.
1401JSC 1 year ago
this JSC1401 clearly is a repressed Williams fanatic.
eddievas 2 years ago 2
I'm betting he's "repressing" a lot.
SmugeonClap 2 years ago 2
TW was a genius. Your comments lack intellect or context.
Compare Rubens to Monet and Pollock... That makes as much sense.
SmugeonClap 2 years ago
The context is this clip + reading biographies + knowing his 3 or 4 genial plays (more remembered for their big screen version, no doubt).
Your critique does not answer my remark in any intellectual way!
And if you defined the criteria of genius???
1401JSC 2 years ago
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SmugeonClap 2 years ago
A "genius" who's known for three or four plays?
Compare Shakespeare or Dickens!
JSC1401 2 years ago
Genius is not a matter of quantity but of quality.
AnaKosta 2 years ago
@JSC1401 Excuse me, a "genius" isn't determined by the number of plays he wrote but by their quality. He could have written ONLY ONE play and could still be call be genius. If it weren't for Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte wouldn't have been famous or depicted as having talent.
Rosamorrable 1 year ago
@Rosamorrable
"Having talent" is not a self-sufficiant definition of "genius".
If it weren't for William Thackary's observation of the English society, we would not even know about Jane AUSTEN. Without the recognition of Jane Austen, the Bontë sisters would never have dared write for publication.
But is there real genius in all of that?
1401JSC 1 year ago
@1401JSC do you still doubt it?there is genius in their work.Of course, there are many others who had genius but couldn't emerg because either they didn't have the guts/didn't meet the right people,or simple bad luck!but do we need to debate on something like this?
Rosamorrable 1 year ago
@1401JSC to tell you the truth, i have read only a streetcar named desire and what mesmerised me is the incredible depth of Blanche.You can clearly see that Blanche is Tennesssee because you can simulate rudeness(Stan) but you can't simulate a pertubed soul. It's one of the most dramatic plays i've ever read among both english and french plays.
Rosamorrable 1 year ago
@Rosamorrable
"Dramatic"? Is that really the word?
I thought all plays were "dramatic art", even comedies....
Mesmerising you is sufficient to define genius?
Self identification between authour and a character is sufficient?
Hmmmm
1401JSC 1 year ago
@1401JSC
Whats your definition of genius?
bawoman 1 year ago
@bawoman
Good question!
If the word "exceptional" comes into it, then we are all genii, since we are all exceptional !
If the word "influence" comes into it, then we are not all concerned, I suppose.
There are of course evil genii....
:))
1401JSC 1 year ago