Archives for November 21, 2012

Paddy Chayefsky’s Marty, starring Rod Steiger and Nancy Marchand and directed by Delbert Mann, originally telecast on Goodyear Playhouse in 1953:

(This is the latest in a series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Monday and Wednesday.)

“Man–man was an animal which thought. By God he paid a price for it! Heaven and hell and conscience. Mystics and dingy chapels smelling of sweat, paranoiacs crazy for power, fakirs and fakers–all the unlovely gang. Christ, what a swindle. What a folly. One wasn’t above it, though–not quite. Part of the horror was built-in; a part was inescapable. Well, there was virtue in knowing it. What could be ducked one ducked, turning a cool intelligence against a foolish world. And what one couldn’t duck at least one could see clearly. Most problems were unreal and all the big ones.”
William Haggard, Venetian Blind