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December 19, 2008
Manoel De Oliveira is so much younger than that now.
When Manoel de Oliveira was in Chicago three years ago, looking not a day over 75, I had a cold and kept my distance: I didn't want to be the one who sneezed on a living legend and brought him down. No worries: just turned 100, he's gotten a $210,000-worth hank of Euros from incentive fund Eurimages for his currently-shooting Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl, one of 12 European productions divvying $6.1 million. And for the collector of the rarest of curiousities, the Portuguese stalwart has issued a book of poetry in his hometown of Porto. AFP reports, "It's a compilation of texts that [he] has written in recent years," said his publisher Jose Manuel Lello, whose Lello Editores is releasing 'One Hundred Years, One Hundred Texts' on Sunday in Oliveira's hometown Porto. "There are philosophical writings on humanity or science, several poems, and even a story in which he recounts an episode from his childhood," Lello told AFP on Friday." The limited edition? One hundred copies.
Posted by Ray Pride at December 19, 2008 12:05 PM
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