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Vincent Canby Information
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Vincent Canby (July 27 1924 – September 15 2000) was an American film critic. Born in Chicago, Illinois, Canby became the chief film critic for The New York Times in 1969. He was an enthusiastic supporter of many filmmakers, notably Woody Allen,...


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Through the magic of motion pictures, someone who's never left Peoria knows the softness of a Paris spring, the color of a Nile sunset, the sorts of vegetation one will find along the upper Amazon and that Big Ben has not yet gone...


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The Independent - London
Obituary: Vincent Canby
10/30/2000: 1,033 words, approx. 3 pages
VINCENT CANBY held the unique distinction of having served as both film critic and theatre critic for The New York Times. He was also, in a profession where it is hard not to make enemies or invoke jealousy, held in affection, as well as...
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The Nation
Romancing the Screen.(Canby, Vincent and Rosenbaum, Jonathan)(Critical Essay)
11/27/2000: 1,709 words, approx. 6 pages
VINCENT CANBY As a memorial tribute to Vincent Canby, the "Arts & Leisure" section of the New York Times recently published half a page of excerpts of his prose, as selected by The Editors. Implacable beings of ominous name! With grim rectitude,...
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The New York Observer
A Second Act Triumph: Little Edie Happy at Last
11/12/2006: 1,495 words, approx. 5 pages
The new Broadway musical Grey Gardens, directed by Michael Greif, is a tale of two acts. After last season’s successful run at Playwrights Horizons, the show’s creators tried to solve the problem of the expository first act, but what they might have done is drop...
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The New York Observer
A Second Act Triumph: Little Edie Happy at Last
11/12/2006: 1,495 words, approx. 5 pages
The new Broadway musical Grey Gardens, directed by Michael Greif, is a tale of two acts. After last season’s successful run at Playwrights Horizons, the show’s creators tried to solve the problem of the expository first act, but what they might have done is drop...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Benjamin Demott
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Can a chilly, misanthropic, half-crippled, middle-aged, twice-divorced, multimillionaire WASP whose hobby is researching the Albigensian heresies find happiness with a radical Jewish journalist who's 20 years younger than he, depressed by his money and resolved "never, never [to] marry a goy?" Yes and no is the answer delivered in ["Unnatural Scenery"]…. Marshall Lewis Henderson, the WASP multimillionaire, and Jackie Gold, the Jewish journalist, commence living toge...
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Critical Essay by Webster Schott
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"Living Quarters" is the story of a charmingly psychotic woman in the deranged late 20th century. It's told in language that shimmers. It's a story that emerges from plots that explore human longing, suffering and pleasure among the civilized on three continents as though seeking a statement about a condition beyond articulation…. If I understand "Living Quarters" correctly, it suggests, while offering champagne-and-acid entertainment, that the present enviro...
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Critical Essay by Hollis Alpert
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Film critics who write novels are often suspected of trying to enter the world of filmmaking through the back door. In Vincent Canby's case, let us dispose of the suspicion. His first novel, [Living Quarters,] although it begins with an act of violence, soon turns into a recounting of the life, loves, and schizophrenia of a madcap heiress from the Midwest. (p. 26) Mr. Canby's prose is flat and dry, glinting now and then with satiric, disenchanted humor. The book's method is that of reme...
 


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