We did it the democratic way, 2 against 1.'' The Emma of 'Reds' So we called in an arbiter - the author, E.L. He thought her scenes slowed the pace of the film. It was the only spot where Dino'' - referring to the film's producer, Dino de Laurentiis - ''and I disagreed. ''She was there for six and a half minutes, and I wanted her left in.
''Taking Emma Goldman out was not an easy decision,'' says Mr. The speech is broken up by 50 mounted New York policemen. Recognizing the showgirl Evelyn Nesbit in a crowd on the Lower East Side, Emma Goldman causes a riot with a speech about poverty and money that uses Miss Nesbit as an example of the way male exploiters use women. She had, she thinks, ''maybe eight minutes of screen time in 'Ragtime.' '' But it was expensive screen time. On television, she has starred in one less-than-successful series, ''The Fitzpatricks'' as a German terrorist in ''The Raid on Entebbe,'' as Private Slovik's wife in ''The Execution of Private Slovik'' and opposite Kenny Rogers in ''Coward of the County'' in October Her first film role was opposite Dustin Hoffman in ''The Tiger Makes Out'' her biggest film role was with Zohra Lampert in a horror movie called ''Let's Scare Jessica to Death.'' She also performed on Broadway with James Stewart in ''Harvey.'' She played the hero's first wife opposite Jason Robards in the original Repertory Theater of Lincoln Center production of Arthur Miller's ''After the Fall'' in 1964 and recreated the role 10 years later in a television production with Christopher Plummer. Miss Costello, who was featured last year as Mary Tyler Moore's sister-in-law in ''Ordinary People,'' is much better known as a stage and television actress.
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I'm disappointed, but I didn't expect it to make me a movie star.'' Busy on Stage and TV
''It was certainly an interesting role I was delighted to do,'' she says, ''but, in terms of one's life, it's just a movie. Mariclare Costello, who spent three weeks in London and New York last year playing Emma Goldman, is imperturbable about what most actresses would regard as a serious setback to their careers. It will doubtless surprise all those who made that assumption that there was an Emma Goldman in the movie, but her entire role landed on the cutting-room floor in July, when the $32 million movie was shortened from more than three hours to its final 2 hours and 36 minutes. It was assumed that some artistic decision had been made in advance by the screenwriter, Michael Weller, and the director, Milos Forman, to eliminate Miss Goldman, who in the novel had raised both the consciousness and temperature of the showgirl Evelyn Nesbit in a sexually tinged political encounter. Morgan, Henry Ford, Sigmund Freud and Harry Houdini, but critics mourned in particular the loss of the anarchist Emma Goldman. The book had been crammed with such titans of the first decade of the 20th century as J.P. Doctorow's ''Ragtime'' reached movie screens a few weeks ago, most of the historical figures who interacted with the novel's fictional family were missing.
I can't find any online confirmation of this, but my recollection is of the NY Times running an article saying the original cut of the film had run to an unwieldy length, and that the character of Emma Goldman - played, I'm pretty sure, by Mariclare Costello - was eliminated entirely.īy ALJEAN HARMETZ, Special to the New York Times The Original BJ wrote.no Emma Goldman at all!
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