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by Jocelyn Gauthier
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“Sone people get up in the
morning and go to Wall Street.
Or to their job in a department
store. Or a supermarket. Or a
newspaper office. Or to fly an
airplane.
“Horton Foote gets up in the
morning and writes plays,” said
Jerry Tallmer in his introduction
to “Four New Plays.”
Foote is a playwright of sev­
eral American theater, film and
television productions, including
CCC’s Winter Term production of
“Talking Pictures.” A few of his
movies include “To Kill a Mock­
ingbird,” which he received an
Academy Award for, “Tender
Mercies” and “Of Mice and
Meh.” /
Foote turned to play writing
after early training in acting, and
was quickly rewarded in 1944
with his first Broadway produc­
tion at the age of 28. This suc­
cess led him . to television, for
which he wrote “some of the fin­
est drama of its Golden Age,” ac­
cording to the book jacket of
“Cousins” and “The Death of
Papa.”
The name Horton Foote was
often attached, to some TV show
in the 50’s and 60’s, “a good,
plain American name, like the
good plain American people he
wrote about - writes about,”
Tallmer said.
“But there are no good, plain
American people. There are no
good, plain people. There are
people - each of them ever bom
contains the entire drama history
of the world, not to mention that
little atom of the world that is the
parched, worked-out cotton and
oil county of Texas, USA, in and
around the city of Galveston on
the Gulf of Mexico,” Tallmer said.
“The thing that is relevant for
all time,” Foote said, “is the sub­
ject of grief.”
He writes the way people
talk, “or the way you think they
talk, or the way you wish you
thought they talk, or once did talk,
in your mind’s eye (and ear). The
way they talk in that perfect /im­
perfect American of‘Yes, Ma’am’
and ‘Yes, Sir,’” Tallmer said.
In the 60’s, Foote retreated to
New Hampshire, fed up with the
theater, and stayed ‘til the 80’s.
It was his “15-year intermission,”
Foote said, “while I was away in
the country.”
“It was as if he’d dropped off
the face of the earth,” said actress
daughter Hallie.
The Broadway that Foote
once knew is disappearing, and
so are the movies that Tallmer
cares about, except when Foote
writes them. “Movies about hu­
man beings, not robots, not auto­
mobiles, not ghosts, not body
builders, not super warriors, not
dinosaurs, not twerps and nerds.
(Well, there are twerps in Foote
too, but interesting ones,)”
Tallmer said.
Talking Pictures’ main char­
acter, Myra, is a woman who is
about to lose her job playing pi­
ano in a movie theater that - in
1929 - is converting from silent
films to sound.
Her landlord, a railway en­
gineer, faces similar obsolescence.
“One day we could wake up and
find there are no trains at all,” he
tells his wife.
“’Talking Pictures’ is a play,
a short play, that mixes light and
heavy and light again, just as the
shadows of a movie do,” Tallmer
said..
Horton Foote, playwright of “Talking Pictures,” CCC’s
So just what is Foote all Winter Term production, has won several Academy
about? “Heartbreak and forgive­ Awards for other plays and films, including “Tender
ness,” Tallmer said.
Mercies.”
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