On Demand
Survival Kit Archive
July 2002
Malcolm McDowell
Sunday, July 28, 2002
Malcolm McDowell made his name in British films like If..., A Clockwork Orange,and O Lucky Man, before leaving his native England and settling in California, where he’s played the Roman Emperor Caligula, the science-fiction writer H.G. Wells in the time-travel fantasy Time After Time, and the man who killed Captain Kirk in Star Trek: Generations, not to mention the sinister Mr. Roarke in TV’s Fantasy Island. Well, let’s find out what he’s putting in his survival kit for an imaginary journey to a mystery location.
Edna O' Brien
Saturday, July 20, 2002
Edna O’Brien grew up in a rural village in the west of Ireland, but she's said that she had to leave home in order to write, and she has lived most of her life in London. Her fiction vividly depicts the dark side of her “beautiful tragic country”; in novels like The House of Splendid Isolation, Down by the River, Wild Decembers, and In the Forest, seemingly peaceful, bucolic landscapes harbor IRA terrorists, child molesters, and homicidal maniacs. So let’s see what she feels she would need to keep her safe and sane in the wilderness.
Marcel Marceau
Sunday, July 14, 2002
Marcel Marceau has always seemed removed from the hubbub of modern life; his timeless “mimodramas” possess an otherworldly poetry and serene dignity that make us feel that we have been transported to an earlier century.
Roz Chast
Sunday, July 07, 2002
Roz Chast is this week’s adventurer; for over twenty years she’s explored the foibles of home and family life in her inimitable drawings. In the process she has changed the way we think of the cartoon form. Her work can be found in almost every issue of the New Yorker magazine and several volumes of her cartoons have been published, including Childproof and Cartoons about Parents and Children. Ms. Chast has lived in and around New York City for most of her life, and I really wanted to know what she would put in her cultural Survival Kit for a lengthy exile from her hometown.
