Kill Fee

Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini
Here’s a link to my review in Bookforum of two recent studies of censorship and film: William Bruce Johnson’s Miracles and Sacrilege: Roberto Rossellini, the Church, and Film Censorship in Hollywood and Thomas Doherty’s Hollywood’s Censor: Joseph I. Breen and the Production Code Administration.

Mailer and Germaine Greer in 1971.
From the Guardian: “It was a quiet end to one of the loudest and most controversial voices in American letters.”
From Chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker’s astonishing Town Bloody Hall, comes this immortal bit of Mailer: “If you wish me to act the clown, I will take out my modest little […]