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Mark Lupke, as Seargeant Match, sent to find the now-missing tandem of Miss Barclay and Beckett, plays the Law with a straight man elegance that Buster Keaton might have envied. Keith Rogal portrays Dr. Rance with a maniacal energy, but lets loose in the final scene. Ted Chandler's...

Author: By Laura K. Jereski, | Title: The Butler Does It--Well | 4/28/1981 | See Source »

Ultimately, the staging of the overture illustrates director David Carmen's fundamental assumption that continually bogs down an otherwise delightful production, that if the audience isn't kept constantly amused by broad gestures and incessant slapstick, it will become bored and confused. It's an unfortunate approach to take: surely...

Author: By Michael W. Miller, | Title: Patience, Impatients | 4/23/1981 | See Source »

He may go even farther: if the threatening power is truly devastating, like the Soviet Union again, the victim will sometimes make the ultimate accommodation of taking on the worst and most fearsome characteristics of the threatener itself-first as an act of necessity, then of fealty, and finally of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Art of Making Threats | 4/20/1981 | See Source »

Lancaster plays Lou, an aging numbers-runner who moves in on Sarandon to help her after Joe's death, courts her, saves her from the mob, and eventually gives her the means to get out of the casino town. In their several romantic encounters, Sarandon's cool-headed, warm-hearted...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: City of Blight | 4/16/1981 | See Source »

Nicholson always has an aura of unnatural tension around him--he seems to wait a split second too long before reacting, and even then all of this extremes, violent or boyish, flash out of those same, perpetually half-shut eyes. With his hairline receding and the lines of his face...

Author: By Thomas Hines, | Title: Knock, Knock | 4/11/1981 | See Source »

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