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Experimental filmmaker and poet Willard Maas and his friend John Dubay discuss experimental films and filmmaking, part 1 of 2. His friend John Dubay speaks briefly in part 1 of the interview, but is more prominently featured in part 2.
Experimental filmmaker and poet Willard Maas and his friend John Dubay discuss experimental films and filmmaking, part 2 of 2. John Dubay is featured predominantly in this part of the interview. The second part of the interview focuses less on filmmaking and more on societal ills, wealth inequality, and race relations.
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Melvin Douglas and Frank Lovejoy discuss their roles in Gore Vidal's play "The Best Man", politics, and their careers.
In addition to talking about Noel Coward's plays, both Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn talk about the difficulties in acting. Getting rid of her accent is one of Tandy's hurdles. Cronyn revealed being able to give the same performance night after night and get the same reaction from audiences was his difficulty.
Topics of old age, the elderly and retirement homes are all found in the play, "Gin Game, " starring Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy. The play, says Cronyn, shows the struggle people have with their own characteristics and their inability to change. This program also includes a couple of excerpts of interviews with Eliot Wiggington.
Interviewing Jorn Donner of The Svenska Film Institute while Studs was in Sweden.
H. E. F. (Shag) Donahue and Nelson Algren discuss Donahue's book, "Conversations with Nelson Algren," a biographical exploration of Algren's life as a writer. They discuss the creative lives, successes and failures of other authors in relation to Algren's work, including Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, J.D. Salinger, Richard Wright, and others. Includes the author reading excerpts from "Conversations with Nelson Algren."
Discussing the book "Front and center" with the author John Houseman.