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...shrewd analyses of Richardson's performances and brief exegeses of Stoppard's plays. But mainly the author aims to please both his subjects and his readers. He is dazzled by Stoppard's stylish pessimism and flashy wordplay, yet wisely blocks him from the company of Beckett, Nabokov and Oscar Wilde. Deftly, Tynan puts his judgment of Stoppard in the book's foreword: "A uniquely inventive playwright who has more than once been within hailing distance of greatness." The piece itself is an adulatory delight, especially a scene in which Stoppard emerges as a game-saving hero...
...after losing her father on the Titanic in 1912, Peggy came into her share of the Guggenheim copper fortune and departed for the bohemia of Paris and London. She flamboyantly dallied with writers and artists: two became her husbands (including Painter Max Ernst), many her lovers (including Playwright Samuel Beckett). Bored and between husbands in 1938, she began to collect art, later and anonymously sponsor young artists, adopting the motto "Buy a painting a day." When the Louvre declared in 1940 that her Dalis, Mirds and Picassos were not worth the effort of hiding them from the Nazis, she shipped...
THIS COLLECTION of programmes, rehearsal and production photos, and other memorabilia has been on display since October, but the publicity has been obscure (apt enough for Beckett, who's always agilely sought privacy, impatient reclusive misanthropic, niggardly and unwasteful about his vitality...
...Beckett is photogenic; perhaps only Ezra Pound is more so, the secret being not to care what people think of you. This scorn for public taste seems distinctly 20th century. Beckett won't acknowledge the camera, and defies close-up. His wrinkles are far more impressive than W.H. Auden's; Beckett's struggle to cover the bone, Auden's are ornamental. It's a neat twist to find Beckett and Buster Keaton together in one photo (Keaton played the protagonist in Beckett's Film)--Keaton the supreme silent comedian, Beckett (equally a master of comedy) minimizing theatre toward a condition...
...exhibition isn't only photos, and clearly not all the photos are of Beckett. There are some very good stills from his plays, which make for more revealing and impressive stills than most. Take a look...