In "A Ticket to the Circus," Church Mailer delivers a remarkable anecdote from the gestation period of Godard's "King Lear" that suggests as much.
The center of that remarkable anecdote is the director Eddie Sutherland, who discovered that his baggage was searched upon arrival and was sent packing from San Simeon.
In his book on Tourneur, a French-born director who made his career in Hollywood, Chris Fujiwara relates a remarkable anecdote about the film: His involvement in the project began when his friend Joel McCrea, who had been cast in the film, gave him the novel (by Joe David Brown) on which it was based.
He's right to emphasize the decisive influence of art-lovers and their passionate discourse to the endurance of art — he cites not only critics but also, for instance, record-store and video-store clerks whose wide-ranging knowledge and cultivated taste was passed along to customers by word of mouth (and Timberg offers some remarkable practical anecdotes of these enthusiasts' enduring impact).
Along with George Cukor's 1954 version of "A Star Is Born," starring Judy Garland, it's one of the greatest films about actors' furious, self-revealing, and potentially self-destructive art — which renders all the more remarkable the anecdote with which Ray Carney opens his chapter on the film in his seminal work "Cassavetes on Cassavetes".
And nothing stirs long-forgotten feelings like food, which is why "Culinary Quests," the globe-trotting culinary experiences in our Food & Drink Issue, is such a remarkable collection of anecdotes.
Two anecdotes capture the remarkable, almost surreal distance travelled by the key players in the Northern Ireland drama during their 10 years of negotiations.
But he delivers a performance so full of wit and passion and anecdote – as well remarkable vocal fervor – that he becomes one of the weekend's great stand-out acts.
"His remarkable book distills his wisdom into memorable anecdotes and lessons, drawing from his life and career".
(Ages 10 and up) The author has made good use of the oral histories maintained by the Army Nurse Corps historian to find rich anecdotes about the wartime experiences of the remarkable women who served on all fronts as nurses.
