Painting: The other stage for Odets

International Herald Tribune | May 26, 2006| | Copyright

Kathryn Shattuck
International Herald Tribune
05-26-2006
Walt Whitman Odets still remembers the day that Jean Renoir told him, ''Your father knew more about painting than anyone I know.''He found the statement curious, if not bizarre. After all, Odets's father was the playwright Clifford Odets, whose best-known images were rendered not in paint but in crackling prose in works like ''Waiting for Lefty'' and ''Awake and Sing!'' Perhaps more to the point, Renoir, the filmmaker, was the son of Pierre-Auguste Renoir, the great French Impressionist. But Jean Renoir wasn't exaggerating. Although ...

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