:: blame the extended gestation.... ::

:: Monday, September 20, 2004 ::

She pops pills, eats ice cream for breakfast and wanders the halls of the hotel without her clothes.

An excellent interview with Arthur Miller on his new play, making the Misfits, and Marilyn.

''I had to laugh,'' Miller said, referring to the reviews of the original production. ''As far as Monroe is concerned, I spent five years trying to keep her from falling off the cliff. How did she die? Did she self-destroy or not? Are we not to put truth on the stage?'' He asked the questions slowly, making them sound large and nearly biblical.
''There is no correct version,'' he continued. ''It's purely the way I see it.''
But what if the rest of us see it differently?
''It doesn't matter,'' he said. ''It's my truth. It's not your truth.''

and then this great insight...

''I like the company of women,'' he said. ''Life is very boring without them. Women are livelier than men and more interested in people. Men get abstract with their ideas.''

and it turns out Miller is quite political...

In conversation, Miller seems fully attentive to the present and its preoccupations. He spoke well of Michael Moore's ''Fahrenheit 9/11'' and lavished high praise on Philip Roth's about-to-be-published ''Plot Against America: A Novel,'' which he was in the middle of reading. (''Philip and I see each other regularly once every three years,'' he noted humorously.) An unreconstructed leftist, he still subscribes to The Nation. (''How can the polls be neck and neck when I don't know one Bush supporter?'' he asked with apparent earnestness.)

:: Jim Nichols 9/20/2004 01:08:00 AM [+] ::
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