Muckmanship Geoffrey Wagner

Muckmanship

Only a week ago I read, according to yips of delight in Village Voice, that LeRoi Jones’ new one-act play (“brief, lyrical, biting”) contained “sodomy performed on stage”—well— “ (with the lights out).” Come on now. So timid? One Jonas Mekas, an individual twice arrested for showing obscene films (the second occasion on current bail of $1,500), appears to be the self-appointed high priest of “The New American Cinema.” (Another leading light, Jack Smith, brushed with the law on a different count, trying to “borrow” jewels from Tiffany’s on two occasions to lend accuracy to his films; he was released both times.) You have but to read Mekas—alongside of his confessed buddy, Andrew Sarris—to see just how the pathic is being mobilized in the destruction of the rational in this area today.

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Only a week ago I read, according to yips of delight in Village Voice, that LeRoi Jones’ new one-act play (“brief, lyrical, biting”) contained “sodomy performed on stage”—well— “ (with the lights out).” Come on now. So timid? One Jonas Mekas, an individual twice arrested for showing obscene films (the second occasion on current bail of $1,500), appears to be the self-appointed high priest of “The New American Cinema.” (Another leading light, Jack Smith, brushed with the law on a different count, trying to “borrow” jewels from Tiffany’s on two occasions to lend accuracy to his films; he was released both times.) You have but to read Mekas—alongside of his confessed buddy, Andrew Sarris—to see just how the pathic is being mobilized in the destruction of the rational in this area today.