And she knew her time in this world had come. Then, in her senior year of high school, she was offered a small part in a school play.Īnd all of a sudden, an image appeared in Kitty’s head: that of Antony dead, her beloved lover. An abrupt end to her life’s first passion. She had dyslexia and her reading suffered because of it.Įventually she turned down the idea. However, there were a couple of problems: she could only paint the scenery and her grade average was not good enough. He told her he could help her get into his alma mater if she so desired, and, for a while, Kitty seriously entertained that thought. That funny little teacher had gone to the Rhode Island School of Design and one day took Kitty aside and suggested she carry on with her artistic education. Then she would creep into the art room and paint all afternoon.
twice a week and Kitty would sneak out of the study hall and go under the window so not to be detected. A funny little man, all the girl students would make fun of him, but Kitty knew he had something to teach her. “He was a marvelous portrait painter,” she says.
She had met a teacher at the small prep school she was going to outside of Baltimore. When Kitty was a child she dreamed of becoming a painter. She was named after her beloved grandmother, Katherine Marshall, a former actress and alumnus of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, who had performed for a while in Richard Mansfield’s theatre company. Army General, former US Secretary of State, former US Secretary of Defense under President Truman, and 1953 Nobel Peace Prize winner. Winn and Molly, the stepdaughter of George C.
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Search for: Divide & Conquer Divide & Conquer Discover the Enemy Discover the Enemy Tweets from the Frontlines Tweets by ChrisFaupel Enemy Interests 50/50 1970s 1980s Academy Awards Anti Records Best Picture bible Biblical Brad Pitt Cannes Carey Mulligan Catholic christina ricci coming soon craig brewer criticism cult classics David Lynch Dead Man's Bones Dead Weather Drive drugs England France gangsters grindhouse Gus Van Sant Harmony Korine HBO How To Destroy Angels Ingmar Bergman Jack White Jane Campion John Goodman Johnny Cash Joseph Gordon-Levitt Lars Von Trier Madonna Martin Scorsese Michael Jackson New York City Nicolas Winding Refn Nine Inch Nails Oscar politics Portishead promo Psycho Pulp Fiction quentin tarantino Radiohead religion remake robert rodriguez Ryan Gosling Sam Peckinpah samuel l.Katherine Tupper “Kitty” Winn was born Februin Washington D.C.’s Walter Reed Army Medical Center. I think this film was ahead of its time for 1971, and while it may not serve to affect an audience in the maelstrom of glossy drug addiction flicks that plagued the disillusioned late 80s and 90s, it makes a huge impact if your not yet desensitized to such fare. An ending which I must admit sort of took me surprise. Wonderfully shot and directed, I was enthralled till the stark ending. Kitty Winn took home the award for Best Actress at Cannes for her role in this film, and she deserved it maybe, but it was really Pacino who dominated many of the scenes throughout. Whether it be by accident, fate, death or arrest, they continue to wait for something to happen to them instead of doing something for themselves. The film seems to centralize on the fact that they are not getting out of the life they’ve continued to lead without being pulled out. You might find, much like I did, that some of the scenes between the “fucked up pooh-butt” Uma Thurman, Eric Stoltz, Rosanna Arquette and John Travolta are homages to Schatzberg’s sophomore film.īobby (Al Pacino) and Helen (Kitty Winn) play the epitome of the heroin addict spending nearly the entire 109 minutes of the film roaming around the streets of New York City, looking to buy a hit, looking to sell a hit, looking to fall in love and escape their fate. Well, if this logline from the trailer doesn’t make you want to see this gritty 70s masterpiece from director Jerry Schatzberg, then don’t watch Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction.
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