Not even all the way through and I am in awe of this interview, this interviewer, and how he draws such candor and humour out of Tennessee Williams. No wonder the critics attacked Tennessee in his later years. He told the truth. He revealed the folly. He rocked the boat. Thank-you to the person who posted this incredible clip!
It must have been extremely difficult for him to receive such critical animosity towards his work in the latter part of his life and I admire his determination to keep on writing despite this.
Im a huge Tennessee Williams fan ! Being a Southerner I really get the eccentricity of his characters ! Hope you are still writing wherever you are with a typewriter ! TW ! 📖🔖
The question at 6:21 ("Do you ever reach the point where you are completely satisfied with a script?") does not understand how a play evolves in performance. Playwrights know a play is never "finished" as words on a page because rewrites happen when actors bring those words onto a stage. If a play script has never reached rehearsal stage ... then it certainly is nowhere near "finished".
As my friend and long time former classmate at DCC stated so correctly...the interviewer is the late, great Jim Whaley. Jim was probably the first personality to create a televised film interview show...going back to the early 1970's. Jim worked in his pre-teen years at a local movie theatre in Avondale Estates called the Towne Cinema...where repertory films would play in the day and on weekends....and Jim would work the booth and sit in the projection room...soaking in all of the glory of early films. Later, as a late teen, he took his love for the filmed work to the producers at WETV channel 8, which was the Atlanta School Systems PBS station....and asked them to allow him to show clips of old films and describe them. The show was a hit...and later he branched out interviewing actors and film makers. One of his first guests...and later a life-long friend...Burt Reynolds. He also made friends with the leaders at MGM, where he became one of the most informed consultants of the great MGM musicals in the 1970's. His show, "Cinema Showcase" predated the more famous show "In The Balcony" with Siskel and Ebert by at least 10 years. If Jim had been hired by TCM....he would have made Robert Osborne a student...not the other way around.
the greatest american playwright ever!!!
Not even all the way through and I am in awe of this interview, this interviewer, and how he draws such candor and humour out of Tennessee Williams. No wonder the critics attacked Tennessee in his later years. He told the truth. He revealed the folly. He rocked the boat. Thank-you to the person who posted this incredible clip!
Yes, this interviewer did a great job. . .all it takes is a little sympathy and honesty and you bring out the genius from Tennessee Williams
Thank You for posting. Tennessee is on my family ancestry tree as a cousin.
Lucky!
Things like this is what truly makes You Tube wonderful !
It must have been extremely difficult for him to receive such critical animosity towards his work in the latter part of his life and I admire his determination to keep on writing despite this.
Im a huge Tennessee Williams fan ! Being a Southerner I really get the eccentricity of his characters ! Hope you are still writing wherever you are with a typewriter ! TW ! 📖🔖
one of the alltime greats !!!! thank u
Beautiful and talented man...miss him!
He was incredibly charming
Amazing! Thank you for posting this!
What a wonderful interview--Tennessee was/is a marvel-- :)
omg where has this media been? I'm gonna have a sherry.
Saw “Cat On A Hot Tin Roof”, with Ned Beatty as Big Daddy, on Broadway in 2003.
The question at 6:21 ("Do you ever reach the point where you are completely satisfied with a script?") does not understand how a play evolves in performance. Playwrights know a play is never "finished" as words on a page because rewrites happen when actors bring those words onto a stage. If a play script has never reached rehearsal stage ... then it certainly is nowhere near "finished".
Ah, Tennessee, it's seems North America has finally reached Block Sixteen on El Camino Real....'The Curtain Line has been spoken. Bring it Down!'.....
This can't be January of 1978, as there's a poster for grease which wasn't released till the summer!
Grease was a Broadway musical before it was a film.
@67Parsifal But there's photos of the film on it. You can see Olivia Newton John?
It could have been a promotional poster that came out prior to the movie@@benfisher1376
Maybe they were advertising in advance?
Is that Strother Martin
Ta for this!! What's the interviewer's name, please?
Jim Whaley
As my friend and long time former classmate at DCC stated so correctly...the interviewer is the late, great Jim Whaley. Jim was probably the first personality to create a televised film interview show...going back to the early 1970's. Jim worked in his pre-teen years at a local movie theatre in Avondale Estates called the Towne Cinema...where repertory films would play in the day and on weekends....and Jim would work the booth and sit in the projection room...soaking in all of the glory of early films. Later, as a late teen, he took his love for the filmed work to the producers at WETV channel 8, which was the Atlanta School Systems PBS station....and asked them to allow him to show clips of old films and describe them. The show was a hit...and later he branched out interviewing actors and film makers. One of his first guests...and later a life-long friend...Burt Reynolds. He also made friends with the leaders at MGM, where he became one of the most informed consultants of the great MGM musicals in the 1970's. His show, "Cinema Showcase" predated the more famous show "In The Balcony" with Siskel and Ebert by at least 10 years. If Jim had been hired by TCM....he would have made Robert Osborne a student...not the other way around.
He is a great interviewer. . .Thanks for telling us more about him.
Thank you