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• Region: All Regions
• Studio: "Charlie Rose, Inc."
• DVD Release Date: August 10, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B000GAKU8Q
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An hour-long appreciation of the great playwright Arthur Miller. He died recently at the age of 89.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A tribute to Arthur Miller, November 13, 2007

By	Shalom Freedman "Shalom Freedman" (Jerusalem,Israel) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)

This show consists in selections from the various conversations Charlie Rose had through the years with Arthur Miller. Miller always appears as a somewhat stiff and stodgy character, though at one point Rose and him have a good laugh. He is however one of the great American playwrights and what he has to say in these interviews is truly interesting. He speaks about the poor state of the American theatre. He speaks of his greatest regret that he was not part of a repertory theatre which he would have written many more plays for. He seems to feel that the writing of more plays was something he could have and should have done. He tells Charlie Rose about his technique in writing. For him writing a play is an act of hearing .He wrote and heard the characters' voices. He when asked about what the great playwrights which Rose lists as Miller, Tennessee Williams, Eugene O'Neill, Chekhov and Shakespeare had in common Miller says I think in a very partial and small way their 'moral sense' their moral outrage. He is of course speaking for himself and projecting his own prominent quality on the others.
Rose takes Miller through various stages of his life. Miller surprises by being willing to talk about the Marilyn Monroe chapter. He says that she contained in herself 'everything'. He claims she was too dependent on her coach Lee Strasberg, that she was destroyed by drugs. He does not indicate his own personal part in this.
He speaks about other aspects of his life and work. When towards the end he seems to express great pride in his own family, the irony of this is not understandable at that time. For it is only after he dies that the whole story of the retarded child who he kept from the public eye , is told. The playwright who stood above all for being moral and courageous, and who was in his own work life, and in his own refusal to 'name names' and sing on his friend was revealed to have a serious moral deficiency of his own.
In any case Rose did not know about this then.
The interview is conducted with respect and understanding. And it is another case in which Rose by his knowledge, sensitivity understanding of his subject and the subject's work proves himself to be outstanding.
We are through the interview able to understand how a major American literary figure thought about his work and his life. Miller at the end says that there were four or five major American playwrights in the twenties and thirties who no one knows of today. He says that no one knows whose work will be remembered in the years ahead.
In other words he shows a certain kind of modesty and humility , especially admirable if we consider his great reputation today.