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...ROOF. A triumphant revival of the Tennessee Williams play starring Elizabeth Ashley as a sensuous, febrile, scorchingly Southern Maggie...
Elizabeth Ashley left the New York stage slightly over a decade ago as a lovely ingenue. She returns, still ravishingly beautiful, as an actress assoluta. Her Maggie the Cat is sensuous, wily, febrile, gallant, and scorchingly Southern...
...cutting cruelty, but he lacks the roguish animal magnetism of Burl Ives in the 1955 original. Dullea is much too nerveless as Brick; his crutch upstages him. Stalwart Kate Reid rates a special citation for her earthy, grieving, raging Big Mama. But it is Elizabeth Ashley, purring, clawing, fighting for her man, who gives the play a mesmeric, electrifying intensity. ∎ T.E.K...
Elizabeth Ashley is a stunningly beautiful young Maggie, and this justifies all the primping and preening she does. Her Southern accent is not infallible, but she does serve well the lyrical aspects of her speech. She is not at home, however, in the profanity of a phrase like "goddam luck." I think she represses her fighting instinct too much in the first act, and one mutters, "At last!," when she really lets go in the third. I like the idea ok having her aim her archery bow at Mae's back. I did not care at all for Barbara...
Shockley and Innis have debated only once, on the NBC-TV Tomorrow show last December. They were scheduled to debate at Princeton University in December, but Innis refused to speak and Shockley debated Ashley Montagu, a Rutgers University professor of anthropology, instead...