After they had a national hit the following year with " Time Won't Let Me", Fox returned temporarily to play with them after their drummer was drafted. On September 3, 2022, the band's original power trio returned for a performance at the Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert held in Wembley Stadium.ĭrummer Jim Fox first played with the Cleveland-area band the Outsiders but left them in 1965 to attend college. Several incarnations have reformed for reunions since then. The band carried on with a number of other guitarists and lead singers to replace Walsh, but failed to experience any further commercial success over the course of six more studio albums. In late 1971, Walsh left to pursue a solo career and would later join the Eagles. Two of the band's signature songs, " Funk #49" and " Walk Away", remain staples of classic rock and AOR stations. Dale Peters replaced Kriss on bass for the band's second and third albums. The band went through a variety of line-up changes until they recorded their debut album as a power trio consisting of Joe Walsh (guitars, lead vocals), Tom Kriss (bass), and Jim Fox (drums). There’s a deep, human mystery in his work.James Gang was an American rock band formed in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1966. People expect a nice period piece, but that’s not always the case. “That’s why it’s not so easy to adapt him. “James is much more complex and ambiguous than Jane Austen,” said Agnieszka Holland, who directed the film version of Washington Square. “We’ve all got friends, or we ourselves, have been in a relationship we can’t leave.” “Playing the part was terrifying, yet also addictive,” said Kidman, who makes her debut in a classical role as Isabel. In her film, Campion makes the relationship between Isabel and her husband, Osmond, played by John Malkovich, a virtual paradigm of spousal abuse. “Isabel Archer becomes darker and darker and more doomed.” “His works have a dark eroticism which is quite suppressed,” said Iain Softley, who directed the film adaptation of Wings of the Dove.įor Campion, James’ Portrait of a Lady, the tale of an heiress manipulated by her best friend into marriage with an artist, is “quite racy.” “The accumulated effect of the story really sends shivers down my spine,” she said. His works are essentially meditations on the grand themes of human existence, on love and desire, on family and fear and emotional abuse. But she added that she had had no difficulty getting the $25 million she needed to make The Portrait of a Lady because, “People are becoming aware that there is a mature audience you can target separately.”Īnd for a mature audience hungry for more complex fare, James’ novels tackle all the big issues. “Everybody’s chasing young kids,” said Campion. The recent successful Broadway revival of the 1947 play The Heiress by Ruth and Augustus Goetz, based on James’ Washington Square (as was William Wyler’s 1949 film), has demonstrated that there is indeed an audience for James’ work and has made it easier for filmmakers to get financing for such projects. And most Austen and James novels take place in grand settings, majestic gardens and country houses. What the trade calls “English garden party” movies like Sense and Sensibility have become popular with older moviegoers eager for sophisticated entertainment. is the dearth of movies for educated grownups. There have been Henry James movies, even operas based on his work, but the current spate of adaptations is a new phenomenon.Ĭertainly one reason for filmmakers’ interest in Austen, James et al. James, whose attempts at writing for the stage were a dismal failure, would no doubt be amused to learn that so many of his works are being brought to the screen with big stars and big budgets. Why this surge of interest in the author who once referred to himself somewhat proudly as “invincibly unsalable,” and whose labyrinthine prose more often than not exhausts the average reader? (“We want it clear, goodness knows,” James wrote. The University of Nebraska Press is planning to publish all 12,000 of James’ surviving letters, a project that is expected to fill 25 to 30 volumes and take 15 years to complete. The Henry James Review is also available on the Internet, with articles from recent issues including one, inspired by The Portrait of a Lady, that is titled “Divorce of a Nation or, Can Isabel Archer Resist History?”
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