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"ONE OF A KIND"
"affecting...and... ingenious."
"A vaudevillian tour-de-force"
![]() "England offers the evening's most touching performance, as the young, guilt-racked Don Parritt." NYTHEATRE.COM -- NAVAJO MEMOIRS THIS PICTURE'S GOT OSCAR WRITTEN ALL OVER IT... England's satire of Hollywood's version of the birth of a nation is, as we learn over the course of the piece, also an elaborate metaphor for his own nativity... a vision quest... the old MGM logo serves as backdrop for... this romantic Western... a sweeping, time-traveling historical epic, encompassing everything from the Conquistadors to Manifest Destiny... the story of a Navajo princess (played by Elizabeth Taylor, of course; this is MGM) and her love for a handsome American officer (played by Montgomery Clift)… with an all-star supporting cast, including Bette Davis as Isabella of Spain and Orson Welles as the Pope, and a juicy plot integrating the tangled family trees of European royalty, religious conversions and one Native girl's search for love and protection... Mel England shares his thoughts on quality of life, Love, returning to innocence, meaning of life, and happiness. This conversation was recorded on the streets of Greenwich Village in NYC on October 20, 2003. |