This page has changed. Prof. Ray Carney wrote program notes to accompany
the Criterion Cassavetes Box Set and did voice-over commenary to accompany
with the disks, but this material was censored and prevented from being
published by Gena Rowlands. Prof. Carney worked as the scholarly advisor
for the Criterion box set for more than 8 months, spending more than
300 hours of his time from October 2003 through May 2004 locating material
and making recommendations for the contents of the set. When the project
was complete in May 2004, Gena Rowlands had him fired and had his name
removed from the box set (even though much of his scholarly and planning
work is retained in the set: the selection of films and photographs,
the choice of supporting material and individuals to be interviewed,
the arrangement and presentation of the booklet and the disks).
Click here to read the backstory of Rowlands's Norma Desmond strategy—the
philosophy that if you can't control someone, you should attempt to destroy
or undermine them with censorship, suppression, firing, threats of law
suits. Get ready for a long tale..... Once upon a time, it all began with......
Once you have familiarized
yourself with that page, you can learn more by going to two other pages
on the site (and by accessing the additional material available through
the top menu on any of these three pages).
To read a summary of what Rowlands
did to Carney, click
here to go to a page titled: "Rowlands, Ruban, and the first
version of Shadows: A compilation of frequently asked questions
and answers." And to read an interview with Carney about his work
on the Criterion John Cassavetes box set, and how Rowlands had him fired
and his scholarly advisor credit removed from the box, click
here. |