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...turn each character receives air time for a few minutes of monologue, of which Rosann's was most impressive. The glib prankster has the timing of a well-practiced magician; he turns banal lines into comic magic. Cardon and Stone have their moments too, especially when they alternate in reciting a tale of their unexpected urge to relieve themselves on the wide-open beach...
...BOOK COMES complete with Miller's homespun philosophy: "We need more Presidents who have run from fights and admit it. We must run from more fights. That's our only hope." Plain Speaking could do with more probing of Truman's personality and less banal simplicity...
...Washington monument for 30 minutes. One of them noted that in contrast to the outpouring of federal aid programs and massive industry drives to hire veterans after World War II, "Today, we are lucky if we get a two-minute spot after the late movie, containing a rather banal 'Don't forget - hire...
...crowded presence of such experts, what keeps this remarkable little confessional from being just one more 3-o'clock-in-the-morning scream? The events themselves are unexceptional, almost classically banal as middle-class pain goes. Sarah Ferguson is a poor little rich English girl, given to pills and a bit too much drink. Her husband has left her, and she simply isn't up to loving her adopted daughter, age three...
...Horgan, who has directed Absurd plays before, says that "The 'absurd' style has always rested uneasily with the naturalism of film." His production has not made a very successful accomodation of the two. The banal absurdity of his comedy version of Rhinoceros is amusing, but forceless. Relying on traditional comic routines and gimmickry, O'Horgan's film hardly approaches the stark abstraction of reality and denial of convention demanded by real Theater of the Absurd. He has made an absurd film of a good play, not a good film of an Absurd play. The American Film Theatre should have stayed...