PART I - Brenda Venus - Dinner With Henry Miller 1979 - PART I

Dinner With Henry is a rare, 30-minute documentary about Henry Miller. It is exactly what the title implies: footage of Henry having dinner. With him at the table is the film crew, and actress/model Brenda Venus, to whom Henry was enamoured in the final years of life. Henry - at age 87 - spends the majority of his time speaking on a number of subjects, the most persistent of which is Blaise Cendrars. Occasionally, he complains about the food. That is all. It may not be of much interest to a general audience, but is a curious "slice of life" for any Miller fan who likes to imagine being at the table with him.

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[spacecowboynj]

He could give a crap about the Nobel Prize (laudable in itself) with the exception of wanting the money so the Death Tax doesn't hit his family too hard.

You have to love this man. Makes me want to go out and buy some of his books tomorrow.

This is what a real artist is. Wine, food, life, art. Not some "depressed" MFA student - this is the real deal. Thank you for posting 1trebori.

[ncbrosig]

Man, I love old Henry the dancer of literature but this is almost a sad proof that even geniuses complain about everything when they get old as shit.

[abovebelow1]

@HigherPlanes I think so too, if so, this is classic Henry.

[nogololo]

@spacecowboynj

ay buddy.......a rooster isn't called a cock from birth.

This is the man in his 80's........it takes time to get to the "wine, food, life, art" period.

You'd better believe this man had some depressing times.

[HigherPlanes]

When Henry said, "There should be a nice round big bone, and you go in the hole, don't you know? And Brenda responded, "But there's no hole...well" then they looked at each other and immediately the video cut to a new frame, I think something very inappropriate took place.

[sjdinergrrl]

 The Devil In Paradise. The original con I love the man

[kristinaF54]

Didn't Brenda appear as an Aztec sex slave in Kung Fu one time?

[Mazurka1001]

Always picks me up, Henry does...I wish the 'quality' of this video wasn't so dismal...such a shame...

[goback3spaces]

@spacecowboynj I agree with what you say about artists and about Miller's charm. But jeez, I tried to read him and couldn't.

[CultureCunt]

don'cha know

[ArtofDreaming1]

they just named a theater in New York the henry miller theater