Thank you Martha , for your presence and written words at the pivot points of history . Glad you still had a sparkle in your eyes in this interview , after all the trauma's you had to endure in your life . Whish i would have met you and debated with you . Rest in peace . Erwin , Belgium .
you prolly dont give a shit but if you guys are bored like me during the covid times you can watch pretty much all of the new movies on instaflixxer. I've been binge watching with my girlfriend during the lockdown xD
I just watched the Ken Burns Hemingway documentary and came away fascinated by this extraordinary woman. Meryl Streep played her brilliantly. Thank you for the upload.
My goodness, what an echo-chamber! Gellhorn speaks of Dachau with horror. The cruelty of it all. Dachau was “So organized, so dedicated to the skeletonizing of life”, she said here. Yet, on a regular basis she shot to pieces hundreds of innocent animals for entertainment, blithely reloading for the next lion or elephant. Nearly always with a cigarette hanging out of her mouth. If this is an ugly thing in a man, why then not for a woman? What fabulous hypocrisy! If animals could write, would she be seen as the dynamic, feisty, independent woman? Or, just a Nazi of a different kind?
IMagine Gayle King doing an interview like this. I had a brief encounter iwth Jeremy Issacs at BAFTA one evening. Had not seen his interview work. Had I seen this or any other of his interviews I would have knelt down and bowed before him. So well done, so very well done! Bravo!!
Her British accent is very marked, like that of Eleanor Roosevelt. It makes me think that until the Second World War, upper class Americans spoke in a way that has now been totally lost.
I think you are on to something here. There seems to be a tradition of intellectual Americans adopting the English accent. Many examples. I just can't see why this should be the case. Many Americans speak far better English than the native-born - like me. I suppose it must be some kind of historical cultural cringe. Totally unwarranted.
She spoke that way from living there as Eleanor Roosevelt did when her husband was ambassador to England, I've known people I grew up with in my region that moved to another one for just a couple years and came back with that region's accent, and I've known others that've left this region for much longer including myself that retained our original accent to where we were from. People who pick up accents easily like that don't have strong beliefs and just want to conform to everything everywhere they go, combine that with being a writer and they'll want to write sympathetic stories everywhere they go, like Hemingway said "The best writers are liars", she herself admitted to being one at the beginning of the interview although she tried to gloss things over as if she isn't, yea she made that story up, but if you believe the part where HG Wells supposedly sent it in you're nuts. Ian Flemming was the same way, he told the story about walking into the Casino in France and trying to beat the "cream of German officers" at cards to strip them of their funds and on his 3rd bet in a row, all of which were losing bets, they'd cleaned him out and that's what gave him the inspiration for what happened to James Bond in Casino Royale, problem is it wasn't true, the fellow intelligence officer he was with when he walked into the Casino said in an interview later on that there weren't any Germans in there the night they went, bit right inside the door Flemming stopped and looked at him and said "Wouldn't it be something if there was German officers in here this evening we could gamble against". That's exactly why you have to take people like her with a grain of salt when they "report" from places, they have a serious tendency to spin stories to get people to look at things the way they want them to be seen. Marie Colvin was an American born reporter who wore an eye patch that lived in London, when she wasn't in the field, from 1985 to when she was killed covering the fighting in Homs Syria and she never picked up an English accent.
And another thing... I met Jeremy Isaacs once. Seemed to me a ' Big I AM'. That said, this kind of interview marks a high point of BBC TV; it is no longer, sad to say.
Martha Gellhorn, Presente! "If you close your eyes, stop your ears, shut your mouth and take it slow, let others take the lead while you bring up the rear, later you can say you didn't know" Peggy Seeger, A Song of Choice - th-cam.com/video/KRckdVyOF_o/w-d-xo.html
Martha confided in me about "the great sense of urgency" she found in my letter to her in Belize when the Wall came down ~ I find it very singular as a thermometer about what has gone on in American journalism that CMU and Lapham's crowd mocked me laughing, "Urgent! Urgent!" and extorted the letter for a gang later arrested on a 6 million dollar museum heist. Her judgment was accurate but her attentions failed to help me. I was brutally tortured and permanently injured in fact poisoned again after that still as Richard Crane put it her "opening up" to me is really something. She was a humdinger.
Sure this woman was wonderful; a true humanitarian. BUT... having just read her 3 African short stories, I must say she was a dreadful writer. Clumsy Anglo-American English - poor grammar - pretentious to an extreme - I reckon she had gained such a reputation that nobody dared tell her what awful prose she was trying to write. Mind you, she was far better than many of her ilk. I do like her, of course. She has a heart.
Thank you Martha , for your presence and written words at the pivot points of history . Glad you still had a sparkle in your eyes in this interview , after all the trauma's you had to endure in your life . Whish i would have met you and debated with you . Rest in peace . Erwin , Belgium .
She is amazing. Absolutely one of my heroes. I can't get enough of her writing. Thanks for posting this.
you prolly dont give a shit but if you guys are bored like me during the covid times you can watch pretty much all of the new movies on instaflixxer. I've been binge watching with my girlfriend during the lockdown xD
@Vincenzo Gael Definitely, have been using InstaFlixxer for months myself =)
@Vincenzo Gael Definitely, have been using instaflixxer for since november myself :)
Her work is beautiful and eternal
Thank you so much for uploading this! I am a great admirer of Martha and haven't seen this interview before. :)
I just watched the Ken Burns Hemingway documentary and came away fascinated by this extraordinary woman. Meryl Streep played her brilliantly. Thank you for the upload.
My goodness, what an echo-chamber! Gellhorn speaks of Dachau with horror. The cruelty of it all. Dachau was “So organized, so dedicated to the skeletonizing of life”, she said here.
Yet, on a regular basis she shot to pieces hundreds of innocent animals for entertainment, blithely reloading for the next lion or elephant. Nearly always with a cigarette hanging out of her mouth. If this is an ugly thing in a man, why then not for a woman?
What fabulous hypocrisy!
If animals could write, would she be seen as the dynamic, feisty, independent woman? Or, just a Nazi of a different kind?
Great respect: stunning interview
IMagine Gayle King doing an interview like this. I had a brief encounter iwth Jeremy Issacs at BAFTA one evening. Had not seen his interview work. Had I seen this or any other of his interviews I would have knelt down and bowed before him. So well done, so very well done! Bravo!!
A great woman.
Brilliant interviewer
Her British accent is very marked, like that of Eleanor Roosevelt. It makes me think that until the Second World War, upper class Americans spoke in a way that has now been totally lost.
I think you are on to something here. There seems to be a tradition of intellectual Americans adopting the English accent. Many examples. I just can't see why this should be the case. Many Americans speak far better English than the native-born - like me. I suppose it must be some kind of historical cultural cringe. Totally unwarranted.
She spoke that way from living there as Eleanor Roosevelt did when her husband was ambassador to England, I've known people I grew up with in my region that moved to another one for just a couple years and came back with that region's accent, and I've known others that've left this region for much longer including myself that retained our original accent to where we were from.
People who pick up accents easily like that don't have strong beliefs and just want to conform to everything everywhere they go, combine that with being a writer and they'll want to write sympathetic stories everywhere they go, like Hemingway said "The best writers are liars", she herself admitted to being one at the beginning of the interview although she tried to gloss things over as if she isn't, yea she made that story up, but if you believe the part where HG Wells supposedly sent it in you're nuts.
Ian Flemming was the same way, he told the story about walking into the Casino in France and trying to beat the "cream of German officers" at cards to strip them of their funds and on his 3rd bet in a row, all of which were losing bets, they'd cleaned him out and that's what gave him the inspiration for what happened to James Bond in Casino Royale, problem is it wasn't true, the fellow intelligence officer he was with when he walked into the Casino said in an interview later on that there weren't any Germans in there the night they went, bit right inside the door Flemming stopped and looked at him and said "Wouldn't it be something if there was German officers in here this evening we could gamble against".
That's exactly why you have to take people like her with a grain of salt when they "report" from places, they have a serious tendency to spin stories to get people to look at things the way they want them to be seen.
Marie Colvin was an American born reporter who wore an eye patch that lived in London, when she wasn't in the field, from 1985 to when she was killed covering the fighting in Homs Syria and she never picked up an English accent.
And another thing... I met Jeremy Isaacs once. Seemed to me a ' Big I AM'. That said, this kind of interview marks a high point of BBC TV; it is no longer, sad to say.
Absolutely fascinating woman and I enjoyed viewing this interview in her later life. Guess Hemingway was off limits which was my only disappointment.
She picked up Hemingway at Sloppy Joe's.
I kept getting fired from jobs because I was no good at them lol 😂 she's great
Martha Gellhorn, Presente!
"If you close your eyes, stop your ears, shut your mouth and take it slow, let others take the lead while you bring up the rear, later you can say you didn't know" Peggy Seeger, A Song of Choice - th-cam.com/video/KRckdVyOF_o/w-d-xo.html
Martha confided in me about "the great sense of urgency" she found in my letter to her in Belize when the Wall came down ~ I find it very singular as a thermometer about what has gone on in American journalism that CMU and Lapham's crowd mocked me laughing, "Urgent! Urgent!" and extorted the letter for a gang later arrested on a 6 million dollar museum heist. Her judgment was accurate but her attentions failed to help me. I was brutally tortured and permanently injured in fact poisoned again after that still as Richard Crane put it her "opening up" to me is really something. She was a humdinger.
Wow
Lucky her to have had parents who did not hamper her from using her ability.
Sure this woman was wonderful; a true humanitarian. BUT... having just read her 3 African short stories, I must say she was a dreadful writer. Clumsy Anglo-American English - poor grammar - pretentious to an extreme - I reckon she had gained such a reputation that nobody dared tell her what awful prose she was trying to write. Mind you, she was far better than many of her ilk. I do like her, of course. She has a heart.
like EH said: "all that ambition"......
We ARE living in the 1000 year Reich!