Shirley Clark Visitation for Shirley Clark (nee Billman), will be from 4 to 9 p.m. Saturday, at Hultgren Funeral Home, 304 N. Main St., Wheaton. At her request, a memorial service will be held at 2:30 p.m. Monday, at her home church,...

Actress Shirley Clark died in a Boston hospital on Sep 23, 1997. Clark, who struggled with Alzheimer's disease for 10 years, began her film career as a dancer, starring in such films as 'Dance in the Sun' and 'In Paris Parks.' She filmed the...

For eight months, Glen Barker's body lay hundreds of feet underground _ far from relatives desperate to give him a proper funeral.He had entered a coal mine in eastern Kentucky on March 11, 1976, to help sift through the debris left by a deadly explosion...

In Portrait of Jason, a man talks to the camera for almost an hour and a half; yet the film is intensely interesting. We hear some other voices besides his—an old friend named Carl, who berates him toward the end from offscreen, and a female voice (Shirley Clarke's) laconically directing the proceedings. The camera tracks Jason around from couch to chair, to hearth, from a fixed position; it zooms in and out on Jason's face; sometimes, when it goes out of focus, moments of soft, abstrac...

Shirley Clarke was originally a dancer. Before making films she took the precaution of learning a great deal about film technique; but she remains an instinctual film-maker, whose feeling for movement generally seems to have carried over into her feeling for the camera. The theme of Bridges-Go-Round—as far as words can describe it—is the bridges that link Manhattan to Brooklyn, queens, the Bronx, and the New Jersey shore. In actuality, the bridges become plastic materials for a highly abstract...

Thanks to the responsiveness of the subject, and the cold simplicity with which Miss Clarke handles the camera, ["Portrait of Jason"] is a good deal more than an unusually frank interview with a homosexual who, at one point, exults: "I'm bona fide freaksville!" The truth is, of course, that he isn't.