{"id":107807,"date":"2017-02-16T09:08:49","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T14:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=107807"},"modified":"2017-02-16T11:25:23","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T16:25:23","slug":"hey-is-that-proust-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2017\/02\/16\/hey-is-that-proust-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey, Is That Proust? and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_107808\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/proust.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-107808\" class=\"wp-image-107808\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/proust.png\" width=\"1000\" height=\"711\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/proust.png 1095w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/proust-300x213.png 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/proust-768x546.png 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/proust-1024x728.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-107808\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Quite possibly Proust. Photo via the <em>Guardian<\/em>.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>All those years of watching old wedding footage and searching for dead authors has really paid off: they\u2019ve found Proust! In what\u2019s believed to be his only appearance on film, Marcel races down the stairs, celebrating the 1904 nuptials of \u00c9laine Greffulhe. He\u2019s dapper. He\u2019s alone. He\u2019s Proust: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2017\/feb\/16\/canadian-professor-discovers-what-could-be-only-footage-of-marcel-proust\" target=\"_blank\">The black-and-white footage of a wedding cort\u00e8ge filmed in 1904 shows a brief glimpse of a man in his thirties with a neat moustache, wearing a bowler hat and pearl-grey formal suit, descending a flight of stairs on his own<\/a>. Most of the other guests are in couples \u2026 \u2018Because we know every detail of Proust\u2019s life, we know from several sources that during those years he wore a bowler hat and pearl grey suit &#8230; It\u2019s moving to say to ourselves that we are the first to see Proust since his contemporaries \u2026 even if it would be better if he was descending the steps a little less quickly! It\u2019ll be fine when we have slowed the film down.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>People say\u00a0late-night TV is improving in the age of Trump. Man, Colbert really brought it last night, they\u2019ll say; or, Seth Meyers is on fire lately; or, Gee whiz, that <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em> program sure gave the administration what-for! But make no mistake: the late-night variety show is a pale and desiccated husk of what it once was. For a counterexample, Joan Walsh revisited the one-week stand Harry Belafonte had on the <em>Tonight Show<\/em>, where he filled in for Johnny Carson in February 1968: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/49-years-ago-harry-belafonte-hosted-the-tonight-show-and-it-was-amazing\/\" target=\"_blank\">The week featured Belafonte\u2019s searing, in-depth interviews with Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., just months before both were assassinated<\/a> \u2026 A few days later, King kibitzed with comedian Nipsey Russell, the blacklisted African-American singer Leon Bibb, and actor Paul Newman, who played his trombone. Another episode featured basketball star Wilt Chamberlain and actor Zero Mostel, who stood on the couch to shake the giant NBA player\u2019s hand. Other guests included singers Buffy Sainte-Marie, Petula Clark, Dionne Warwick, and Robert Goulet; comedians Tom and Dick Smothers; actor Sidney Poitier (Belafonte\u2019s close friend); American poet laureate Marianne Moore; water-skier Ken White; and Metropolitan Museum of Art director Thomas Hoving. Fifteen of the twenty-five guests that week were African-American. Only Belafonte could have pulled that off, says TV producer Norman Lear almost fifty years later. \u2018He was an ambassador in both directions\u2014to his own people and to the Caucasian community. There wasn\u2019t anyone else like him. It is rare to this day.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In the fifties, Colin Wilson scored a big hit with his book <em>The Outsider<\/em>, which became a kind of pop-existentialist hit. Teens loved it. Professors loved it. Teenage professors especially loved it. But the success went to Wilson\u2019s head\u2014his hubristic followup, <em>Religion and the Rebel<\/em> was so bad it relegated his work to \u201csleazy-looking paperbacks at motorway service stations.\u201d Phil Baker writes, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-tls.co.uk\/articles\/public\/overpriced-at-nothing\/?CMP=Sprkr-_-3-_-TheTLS-_-ArtsandCulture-_-Unspecified-_-Unspecified-_-Unspecified-_-TWITTER\" target=\"_blank\">Even before\u00a0<em>Religion and the Rebel<\/em>, Wilson had begun to dig his own grave with his charmless opinions<\/a>: Shakespeare, for example, had \u2018an absolutely second-rate mind,\u2019 \u2018like a female novelist.\u2019 Publishing his diaries in the\u00a0<em>Daily Mail<\/em>, Wilson announced \u2018I\u00a0<em>am\u00a0<\/em>the major literary genius of our century,\u2019 and this generous estimate of his own significance remained consistent: \u2018It strikes me,\u2019 he told an interviewer four decades later, \u2018that in five hundred years time they\u2019ll say \u2018Wilson was a genius\u2019, because I\u2019m a turning point in intellectual history.\u2019\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>And now, with a tidy evisceration of academe, Kevin Birmingham: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/The-Great-Shame-of-Our\/239148\/\" target=\"_blank\">The privilege of tenure used to confer academic freedom through job security<\/a>. By now, decades of adjunctification have made the professoriate fearful, insular, and conformist \u2026 \u2018Professionalization\u2019 means retrofitting your research so that it accommodates the critical fads that will make you marginally more employable. It means cutting and adding chapters so that feathers remain unruffled. Junior faculty play it safe\u2014conceptually, politically, and formally\u2014because they write for job and tenure committees rather than for readers. Publications serve careers before they serve culture \u2026 The most foolish mistake is addressing an audience beyond the academy. Publishing with Penguin or Random House should be a wonderful opportunity for a young scholar. Yet for most hiring committees, a trade book is merely one that did not undergo peer review.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Maud Hart Lovelace is known mainly for her Betsy-Tacy children\u2019s-book series; Jia Tolentino picked up a Lovelace deep cut, and found a book with a sensitive understanding of Syrian immigrant life: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/books\/page-turner\/the-little-syria-of-deep-valley\" target=\"_blank\">I recently decided to reread something else by Lovelace: her one stand-alone young-adult book, <em>Emily of Deep Valley<\/em>, published in 1950, in which the shy protagonist of the title becomes Deep Valley\u2019s premier advocate for the Syrian immigrants who live on the outskirts of town<\/a> \u2026 Emily throws a farewell party for her friends, who are headed to college. Self-conscious about her house, which is full of old-fashioned trinkets, she decides to jazz up the occasion by serving frogs\u2019 legs\u2014the raw materials peddled to her by two young Syrian boys named Yusef and Kalil. The dish is a hit. Then everyone leaves, and Emily is lonely \u2026 One day in winter, she sees a group of boys throw Kalil to the ice on a frozen pond \u2026 She takes Kalil to her grandfather, who makes a sling for his arm, and then she walks him back to Little Syria, a neighborhood that she thought of as dirty and run-down, but which opens up to her with sudden warmth.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today\u2019s roundup: the Proust footage we\u2019ve been waiting for; when Harry Belafonte ran the Tonight Show; and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2512],"tags":[4387,12367,27324,79,27321,13435,27322,575,4841,11833,22648,54,27323,4261,7592,604],"class_list":["post-107807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-academia","tag-colin-wilson","tag-emily-of-deep-valley","tag-film","tag-harry-belafonte","tag-immigrants","tag-late-night-tv","tag-marcel-proust","tag-maud-hart-lovelace","tag-syria","tag-syrian-migration","tag-television","tag-the-outsider","tag-the-tonight-show","tag-tv","tag-weddings"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>This Might Be the Only Time Marcel Proust Appeared on Film<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In today\u2019s arts and culture news roundup: the Proust footage we\u2019ve been waiting for; when Harry Belafonte ran the Tonight Show; and more.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2017\/02\/16\/hey-is-that-proust-and-other-news\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Hey, Is That Proust? 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