Word: aunts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Malcolm Little came to Boston from Mason, Michigan, in 1941 to live with his aunt in Roxbury. Within a few months he had picked up the adornments that lent to ghetto negroes a kind of status he had never known in Michigan. He wore blue or shiny grey zoot suits, burned his long red hair straight by a process called "conking", peddled reefers and dope, and slept with a white woman. Later in Harlem his reputation as a hustler grew. He played and then worked the numbers racket, pimped for male and female prostitutes, sold and took dope in increasing...
Touch's family is made up of dull, joke-cracking father Jack; shallow, bourgeois mother Ruth; precocious and sensitive son Tom (he's just won a national English contest); and maiden but equally sensitive aunt Emily. The action of the play centers around bringing Tom and Emily together, breaking down the walls of alienation which are physically represented by their separate garret-like rooms. Emily speaks to Tom only through monologues into a tape recorder, a device which Mr. Schwartz uses to great advantage...
...even though the play enters around a celebration for the son, the son, the true central character is Aunt Emily, cutting pictures from magazines, dictating taped letters to Tom, feigning deafness. And with Fran Ansley, the role assumes an even greater dimension. The wispy hair, the uncertain movements, the soft voice all register with the audience as perfect. While the action downstairs often approaches gag situations, and the action in Tom's room (like the embarrassing scene with girlfriend Ellen) is often tiresome, Aunt Emily and her world come across as real and sympathetic. When she and Tom come together...
...prolific Jean-Luc Godard (Breathless), a wayward but talented wonder who fills the gap between his more inspired movies by sketching out such trifles as Outsiders. Heroine Anna Karina plays a wistful student who meets two ne'er-do-wells and helps them plan the robbery of her aunt's chateau. They bungle the job, but meanwhile abandon themselves to a couple of amusing Godardian escapades-taking over a cafe with an impudent little dance of alienation, romping through the Louvre in about nine minutes to beat the record set by a busy American tourist. The rest...
...most promising lot. Adele, played by Gunnel Lindblom, is a sullen servant wretch whose impending miscarriage climaxes a lifetime of disappointments. Having lost a girlhood lover, she barely tolerates marriage to a handyman she loathes. Angela (Gio Petre) is a young aristocrat, seduced and abandoned by her aunt's former paramour. Agda (Harriet Andersson) is a trollop who took sweets from a lecherous stranger at nymphet age, and has been surpassingly generous to menfolk ever since...