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- 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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