This is his fourth volume. The poems within are quintessentially different from all that has gone before—poems that achieve a philosophical profundity reflecting a passionate lifetime involvement with life socially, culturally, and politically. Ted Kotcheff has recently published his memoirs entitled Director’s Cut, which reflects his colorful, dramatic, diverting, and diverse, variegated life.
With six decades in show business, legendary director Ted Kotcheff looks back on his life Born to immigrant parents and raised in the slums of Toronto during the Depression, Ted Kotcheff learned storytelling on the streets before taking a stagehand job at CBC Television. Discovering his skills with actors and production, Kotcheff went on to direct some of the greatest films of the freewheeling 1970s, including The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Wake in Fright, and North Dallas Forty. After directing the 1980s blockbusters First Blood and Weekend at Bernie’s, Kotcheff helped produce the groundbreaking TV show Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. During his career, he was declared a Communist by the U.S. government, banned from the Royal Albert Hall in London, and coped with assassination threats on one of his lead actors. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Times; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} With his seminal films enjoying a critical renaissance, including praise from Martin Scorsese and Nick Cave, Kotcheff now turns the lens on himself. Witty and fearless, Director’s Cut is not just a memoir, but also a close-up on life and craft, with stories of his long friendship with Mordecai Richler and working with stars like Sylvester Stallone, James Mason, Gregory Peck, Ingmar Bergman, Gene Hackman, Jane Fonda, and Richard Dreyfuss, as well as advice on how to survive the slings and arrows of Hollywood.
Even if you don't enjoy reading poetry, you'll love this book. It's a delightful scrutiny of a man's youthful years that will touch your heart, stir your soul and give you food for thought. This collection of poems covers a wide range of subjects from youth, friendship, romance, the people that shape your life, to the beauty of nature, its mystery and sometimes when it is "red in tooth and claw". One of the most powerful poems deals with the poet's adolescent encounter with the Holocaust and its hellish images that stains his being deeply and sets him off into an obsessive cosmological quest for meaning and illumination, and he finally finds redemptive grace. So the poems are sometimes autobiographical and at times, philosophical, but always lyrical, always profound but always accessible.
His second published volume exhibits the same extraordinary vividness and vigor that permeates the first, whether the subject be grief at his Father's death, his youthful friendship with pro wrestler Sky Hi Lee, his chat with a turkey vulture, or the mystery of the disappearing honey bee.
With six decades in show business, legendary director Ted Kotcheff looks back on his life Born to immigrant parents and raised in the slums of Toronto during the Depression, Ted Kotcheff learned storytelling on the streets before taking a stagehand job at CBC Television. Discovering his skills with actors and production, Kotcheff went on to direct some of the greatest films of the freewheeling 1970s, including The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Wake in Fright, and North Dallas Forty. After directing the 1980s blockbusters First Blood and Weekend at Bernie’s, Kotcheff helped produce the groundbreaking TV show Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. During his career, he was declared a Communist by the U.S. government, banned from the Royal Albert Hall in London, and coped with assassination threats on one of his lead actors. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Times; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} With his seminal films enjoying a critical renaissance, including praise from Martin Scorsese and Nick Cave, Kotcheff now turns the lens on himself. Witty and fearless, Director’s Cut is not just a memoir, but also a close-up on life and craft, with stories of his long friendship with Mordecai Richler and working with stars like Sylvester Stallone, James Mason, Gregory Peck, Ingmar Bergman, Gene Hackman, Jane Fonda, and Richard Dreyfuss, as well as advice on how to survive the slings and arrows of Hollywood.
This is his fourth volume. The poems within are quintessentially different from all that has gone before—poems that achieve a philosophical profundity reflecting a passionate lifetime involvement with life socially, culturally, and politically. Ted Kotcheff has recently published his memoirs entitled Director’s Cut, which reflects his colorful, dramatic, diverting, and diverse, variegated life.
The poems in Volume III of the COLLECTED WORKS can be grouped quite naturally under the heading of either darkness or light. There is plenty of material on the dark side to invite despair: but Kotcheff does not succumb to that temptation. Instead, he chooses to enlist with life and ride under the banner of Life and Love and Beauty. Among the selections included in Volume III are: the poignant story of a young boys love for a precocious and eccentric work horse; haunting memories of a summer spent working in an abattoir; a vignette of a young man and an older woman whose two souls are transmuted into one through music; tales of unspeakable cruelty dredged from Kotcheffs ancestral Bulgarian past; the magical beauty of myriads of pure white butterflies convening for regeneration.
Even if you don't enjoy reading poetry, you'll love this book. It's a delightful scrutiny of a man's youthful years that will touch your heart, stir your soul and give you food for thought. This collection of poems covers a wide range of subjects from youth, friendship, romance, the people that shape your life, to the beauty of nature, its mystery and sometimes when it is "red in tooth and claw". One of the most powerful poems deals with the poet's adolescent encounter with the Holocaust and its hellish images that stains his being deeply and sets him off into an obsessive cosmological quest for meaning and illumination, and he finally finds redemptive grace. So the poems are sometimes autobiographical and at times, philosophical, but always lyrical, always profound but always accessible.
This humorous book will entertain you for hours. Based on a small mill village in SC and surrounding areas it will make you laugh out loud. The characters will most likely remind you of someone you know. Do not loan this book to your friends. It is funny and entertaining. THEY WILL NOT BRING IT BACK!
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