Wed
Feb
11
“ He resembled an overweight Trotsky dressed as Chairman Mao, talked democracy and practised fascism. He also had two false names, Paddy and Chayefsky… And if at last he was beginning to accept my input on the hallucinations, it was only because he was bereft of any visions of his own.
Ken Russell on Paddy Chayefsky, who scripted Russell’s Altered States, just another of Russell’s films to display, as Roger Ebert puts it, “apocalyptic sexuality.” Just hearing that, how can I not want to see this movie?
