Witness To "Reds"

In a 1979 letter to Miller, the producers requested the following: "we will be asking you about the World War I years, Emma Goldman (whom, I understand, you met), the changing sexual mores of this period, the conflict between political and artistic sensibilities."
This is part of what Miller wrote in response: "If you or Warren Beatty have read my work you must know that I dealt at length with these years. Emma Goldman, whom I met in San Diego, changed my whole life, made me elect to be a writer instead of a cowboy. I mention these things because the tone of your letter is so scholarly. I have always detested academicians [sic]. I can't talk about those years like a professor. I lived them. I was a young anarchist and now an old one...."
[ref. - PBA Galleries - The Personal Archives of Henry Miller, Pt.2 - Item# 30]

The first meeting between Miller and Beatty must have been an interesting one, considering that Henry detested Bonnie & Clyde, the notoriously violent 1967 film that Beatty produced and starred in. "Bonnie & Clyde! Did I hate that!" [see Conversations with Henry Miller, p. 195]. "I feel compelled to look upon the viewers as even more sick than the killers they are watching." [from a Penthouse interview; ref.] Miller also diccusses Beatty in the Stettner book, From Your Capricorn Friend; I don't own this one, so maybe someone else can post a reference for us.
The interviewees for Reds are credited as "witnesses" but their appearances on screen are anonymous, without name titles to identify them (unless you happen to know them). Besides Miller, they included Arthur Mayer, George Jessel, Will Durant, Rebecca West, and over two-dozen others.

"I think that a guy who is always interested in the condition of the world and changing it, either has no problems of his own or refuses to face them." [Miller on Reed]
"People fucked back then just as much as they do now. We just didn't talk about it as much" [Miller on, well, you know]
Reds was released at the end of 1981, just in time to be considered for the Academy Awards that year (of which it was generously given). Miller would never see the film, as he died in the summer of 1980, making this likely his final appearance on film.

See this earlier posting of mine regarding Henry Miller on film.
The film captured image of Miller in Reds was borrowed from the Tiny Revolution blog.
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The essay in FROM YOUR CAPRICORN FRIEND is called "Bonnie and Clyde: A Toccata for Half-Wits." A few choice bits: "As regards the men who make money from such productions, I consider them not only as sick but as evil-minded individuals" (86).
"Bonnie and Clyde are sick, sick to the core. They smell bad. There is an aura of perversion about them, as well as stupid viciousness" (87).
"There is Clyde, with a hebephrenic grin half sex half idiot, and Bonnie, all sex and no brains--like two lollypops saying Hello" (88).
"So Mr. Beatty, Miss Dunaway, Mr. Penn, Mr. Newman, Mr. Warner Bros., if I appear to have been a little harsh, a little broad and sweeping in my criticism of your creation, please know that in the last analysis your BONNIE AND CLYDE is but a tiny symbol of all that ails us, and that in my heart of hearts I don't think you are really any worse than many other members of your clan. In fact, I am almost certain that, given a bit of pot or a dose of L.S.D., you may come up one day with something really funnny, really entertaining, if not instructive or therapeutic" (92).
Thanks for the support information, James. That's perfect.
Thanks for this very interesting post. Not sure but don't I remember reading any of this in the 2-3 bios I have read (frankly, haven't bothered with Dearborn's yet, introduction put me off too much so it sits there collecting dust instead! Perhaps one day)!
Oh well, that's all.
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