Word: bedelia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They Shoot Horses, Don't They? is a strenuous attempt to make that marathon a metaphor for man's fate. The contestants are the populace of a wasted nation. One girl, Ruby (Bonnie Bedelia), is pregnant. Gloria (Jane Fonda) is a brassbound bitch from the Dust Bowl. Robert (Michael Sarrazin) is an open-faced kid from a farm. Sailor (Red Buttons) is a Navy veteran whose ship has gone out. The man running the marathon-and carrying the movie-is a dime-store Barnum named Rocky (Gig Young). The son of an itinerant faith healer, Rocky has read...
...PRACTICAL PRINCESS, by Jay Williams, illustrated by Friso Henstra (Parents' Magazine Press; $3.95). A princess named Bedelia manages to slay a dragon by using a little common sense-and a lot of gunpowder. She also escapes from a prison tower and marries a handsome prince, all because she is practical. A humorous twist on the standard fairy tale with slightly baroque illustrations...
...office. Two seasons ago, the lucky combination was The Owl and the Pussycat, juxtaposing an erudite white bookstore clerk and a hoydenish Negro prostitute. My Sweet Charlie pairs a highly articulate Negro lawyer (Louis Gossett) from the North and a slatternly white mushhead of 17 (Bonnie Bedelia). One after the other, they break into a Gulf Coast cottage in search of refuge. The girl, pregnant and unwed, has been thrown out by her father. The lawyer has killed a white man during a civil rights march...
...sparks of interaction that fly between proficient Actors Gossett and Bedelia camouflage the dearth of action in the play. Considering that the two hurl abuse at one another for minutes at a time, it is surprising that a playgoer ends the evening feeling that it has been spent with two decidedly likable people...