What was the name of the Godard film that plays with the same material?
Caused a stir at the time.
Mark
At 10:15 PM 9/27/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>Yes, it was just this sort of "anecdote" I had in mind, Robin! Not so much
>from any great familiarity with the Apocrypha (Catholics are famously
>ignorant of the Bible, which may answer to some of Mark's confusion over
>which books and versions I was talking about), but rather with the memorable
>play based on it that my friend at the University of Iowa in the early
>1970s, Merle Kessler (whom some may know as Ian Shoals of "All Things
>Considered" or from the late great San Francisco comedy troupe Duck's Breath
>Mystery Theatre), wrote. Many of the scenes made wonderful comedy of what
>life must have been like for Mary and Joseph bringing up a kid like Jesus,
>and Merle milked every sit-com cliché of the time (the complaints from other
>parents, the money M and J had to shell out for repairs to the neighbors'
>property or their kids' medical bills when Jesus got a little rough, the
>age-appropriate punishments beginning with the toddler's "time out" and
>progressing to the teenager's grounding ("no, you may not have the donkey
>tonight--you're still grounded!"), the long talks each would have with Jesus
>about his "special responsibilities" which were so like the ones I
>remembered Clark Kent's parents having with Superboy in the comicbooks, and
>most hilarious of all the fights between Mary and Joseph over Jesus' future
>("being a carpenter's not good enough, huh? Noooo, not for YOUR son--you'd
>think he was the Messi--oh sorry, Mary, I forgot").
>
>When The Bill Cosby Show previewed on American TV soon thereafter, I was
>sure Merle had been robbed!
>
>Candice
>
>
>
>> Well, not +just+ on the grounds of taste. I mean, would +you+ play
>> basketball with someone who, if he got pissed off, would zap you with a
>> stone from the sky?
>>
>> Or try to teach a kindergarden kid who, if you corrected his spelling,
had a
>> slate fall from the roof and brain you?
>>
>> I'm reminded of Elisha (or was it Elija?) and those bears.
>>
>> "Ha, ha, look at the silly old man!"
>>
>> 'Go get 'em, pards!'
>>
>> CRUNCH CRUNCH CHOMP CHOMP.
>>
>> Exit the 600.
>>
>> Actually, that would have been one way of locking the The Childhood Gospels
>> into the Messiahanic Prophecy element -- The Young Jesus as Elisha
>> Revividus.
>>
>> Robin
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