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<text id=93TT1757>
<title>
May 24, 1993: Died:Penelope Gilliatt
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
May 24, 1993 Kids, Sex & Values
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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MILESTONES, Page 29
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<p> DIED. PENELOPE GILLIATT, 61, writer and reviewer of films and
books; following a long illness; in London. A writer of style
and intelligence, Gilliatt achieved stature in several genres.
Her 1965 novel One by One became the basis of her screenplay
for the 1971 film Sunday Bloody Sunday, for which she received
an Academy Award nomination. The somber tale of a hetero- and
homosexual love triangle was one of the very first popular works
to treat such a subject unflinchingly. Gilliatt was also one
of America's best-known film critics, writing reviews for the
New Yorker from 1967 until 1979. She may have seemed more restrained
than her emphatic colleague Pauline Kael, with whom she alternated
reviewing duties in six-month shifts, but she possessed a slyly
caustic wit ("There are no Negroes in this vision of the American
space program," she wrote of Stanley Kubrick's 2001, "conversation
with Russians is brittle with mannerly terror and the Chinese
can still be dealt with only by pretending they're not there.")
She stopped reviewing regularly in 1979, after novelist Graham
Greene questioned the veracity of a story she wrote about him,
and the author of another piece on Greene claimed Gilliatt had
used his material without attribution.
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