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"Disaster movies are our millennial No plays, totally stylized, totally predictable, but comforting in their familiarity" (Richard Schickel, Time).
Many of the recent life and work recaps emphasize Kubrick's famous idiosyncrasies: 1) his reclusiveness (though Time 's Richard Schickel was apparently an intimate); 2) his obsessiveness (he was known, wrote Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times , to call projectionists personally and complain about how his film was being shown in a particular theater); and 3) maniacal attention to detail (scores of takes were the norm).
In an age when Ronald Reagan has slipped into the haze of Alzheimer's disease, when Susan Faludi writes movingly of males clinging to stereotypical notions of machismo as they're laid off their factory jobs and symbolically robbed of potency, it can put a lump in your throat to watch Schickel building--like the hero in Field of Dreams --a shrine to the Dad whom so many elements of the culture have come to undervalue.
Of The Enforcer (1976) , Schickel notes, "Certainly today, attitudes having radically changed, Clint would retract [the movie's] casual contempt for homosexuals, admittedly a feature of his early action films."
The one shocker in the book is the revelation of Eisner's heart-and-soul belief that those who criticize Disney simply don't understand it and that "the company's good is unquestionably, inextricably intertwined with the larger social good" (Richard Schickel, the Los Angeles Times ). (For the biography of another "awkward, toothy, curious, and good-spirited Everyman" at Disney, read Goofy's official bio.
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