alippap (June 9, 2009 at 12:24 pm)

He is dead. Good riddance (politically). He is a classic left-wing racist. Anything against the capitalist west is good. He has supported all the opportunistic dictators in the past. He did not care about the combodjan or serbian peoples etc. That is racist. That Chaves and Morales is doing the same thing as the arabs: blaming their misfortunes at the USA is just pathetic. It will not get them anywhere. Everybody is responsible for their own country. Soon Chomsky is dead too. The last madman.

googerblah (May 28, 2009 at 11:00 pm)

One last thing: I've studied theatre for a majority of my life, and I have a deep respect for all three of the playwrights you mentioned. Pinter, however, is none of them, nor was he meant to be them. He didn't even try to be them. As long as you concentrate on how Pinter is not like Ibsen, you will never fully realise the various scope and uses possible with theatre.Please don't be guilty of the myopia you've so erroneously ascribed to Pinter.

googerblah (May 28, 2009 at 10:56 pm)

I also think it is wholly unfair of you to believe Pinter has a limited view on humanity. I have read and seen much of Pinter's work, as well as paid attention to interviews such as this one; I've read his essays and his poetry. I find very little evidence to the fact that he's a misanthrope with a limited world-view. I find the exact opposite, in fact.

googerblah (May 28, 2009 at 10:54 pm)

I used to share a similar opinion of Pinter's work. Nothing I say here could convince you to value that which he has written; but I can say I used to be in your boat. If you want to recognise the worth of his work, you'll find it. If you don't want to, you won't.

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kfarm2001 (March 16, 2009 at 9:52 pm)

Mountain LanguageParty Timegreat short plays.

sleeplessintokyo (February 20, 2009 at 8:34 pm)

thanks for the clip.. i watch Pinters work closely..but i couldnt help it ! but am i the only one realizing the caller "George in Jerusalem" has an Indian accent!

edmund184 (February 7, 2009 at 3:15 am)

I don't understand how you can say Pinter is a great author. Apart from saying all human beings are at each others throats what do we learn from his work about human nature?I found The Homecoming tedious and Celebration downright bad.He's a misanthropist at heart. Humanity is more complex than he would admit.If anyone can say how he's on the same level as Chekov, Ibsen, O Neal I'd really like to know.

ha39377w (January 3, 2009 at 5:07 am)

People do not realize that Harold Pinter was Jewish and heartily condemned Israel's illegal occupation of Palestine and Israel's current brutal treatment of Gaza. Pinter was one of 105 prominent Jews who signed a We're not celebrating Israel's Anniversary petition in April of 2008.The final paragraph of this petition reads as follows " We cannot celebrate the birthday of a state founded on terrorism, massacres and the dispossession of another people from their land.

Trishachat (December 26, 2008 at 12:02 am)

(corrected for typos; via Monish Chatterjee)Harold Pinter was a noble genius who bravely exposed the filthy, imperial, mass-murdering activities of the Bushco gang, whose revolting British collaborator, Blair the poodle, is, amazingly in a world of cruel ironies, now running around as a "peace" ambassador for the U.N.!Pinter helps keep the hope for civilization alive in a world infested with abysmal evil as represented by immoral, cowardly killers as the chimp and the poodle.

Trishachat (December 25, 2008 at 11:56 pm)

Harold Pinter is a noble and brilliant genous who bravely exposed the filthy imperial, mass-murdering activities of the Bushco gang, who revolting British collaborator, Blair the poodle, is, amazingly in a world of cruel ironies, now running around as some kind of "peace" ambassador for the U.N.!Pinter helps keep the hope for civilization alive in a world infested with such abysmal evil as reresented by immoral, cowardly killers as the chimp and the poodle.

wasabimanic (December 25, 2008 at 8:54 pm)

Good news after all. Hahahahaha