dirac Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 This is especially weird in that moral force of the subsequent versions of the original (and nicely small-scaled) "Mr Norris Changes Trains" & "Goodbye to Berlin" is based on being on the right side of history. Thanks, Quiggin. "Mr. Norris" and the "Berlin Stories" are on the right side, I think. They are more subtle about it. (Isherwood's most vile characters are pointedly not German, and Isherwood doesn't exempt himself.) Isherwood's Sally is capable of "I've just been making love to a nasty old Jew producer" or words to that effect, and she doesn't mean it and yet she does. Not a line that would make it to Broadway, of course - you can't have Julie Harris, et al., saying unpleasant things that might make the audience dislike them. (As for the diaries - I dipped into the first and out of respect I have no plans to read the latest. You can't always go by letters and diaries anyway - Saul Bellow seems so appealing in his letters, but guess what.....) Link to comment
sidwich Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 For the person who asked about Judi Dench as Sally. Dench as London's first Sally in 1968. Link to comment
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