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...original London stage company: Rachel Roberts, an actress of daunting strength, who works hard to give Nora some of the sympathetic understanding the author neglected; and Albert Finney, a prodigious actor who is masterly at containing and then portioning out his power. His Frank is a creation of fierce bluster and desperate anger. Even while he is railing, Finney can convey -in the sidelong unease of a glance, a little twitch of uncertain anxiety-the small, sabotaging currents of helplessness and terror. Jay Cocks
...against the gangsterism of the club owners. He puts together his own club, with some of the league's best talent and with the help of a heavy-hitting catcher named Leon Carter (James Earl Jones). An actor with the kind of power that can easily turn to bluster, Jones here is at his best; he makes Leon appropriately larger than life without ever letting him be come a sports-page cartoon...
...wife when she steps off the boat, she eventually emerges as an independent and assertive figure. The rest of the film's performances are generally solid, with only a few flaws such as Steven Keats's occasionally wooden portrayal of Jake. Keats's performance amounts to little more than bluster at times. His major problem is his inability to decide exactly how much he would like to Americanize Jake...
Extravagant Bluster. For a time, however, it looked as if Feld could think only with his feet. A year after his triumph he left ABT with extravagant bluster. Said he: "They wouldn't make me director of the company, they wouldn't give me the whole company to do with what I like." That outburst was enough to make critics write off Feld with a hauteur that resembled his own. Unrepentant, he set up shop as the American Ballet Company, but ran out of money within two years. He had just about decided to give up choreography when...
Died. Rufus Rose, 70, puppeteer, whose marionette offspring, Howdy Doody, was one of early television's big stars; of peritonitis; in New London, Conn. Rose joined NBC's Howdy Doody Show in 1947, redesigned its gravel-voiced, freckle-faced principal and colleagues, Dilly-Dally and Phineas T. Bluster, and pulled Howdy's strings through countless squabbles and seltzer battles with Buffalo Bob Smith and Clarabell until 1960, when the network dropped the program and disbanded its vast peanut gallery of young fans...