Word: brilliante
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...place of Dante's Beatrice. Since Tome is also the name of the fool in King Lear, it's not too surprising, given the workings of LaZebnik's mind, that characters from the two classics should discover their lives and identities intricately entangled in the course of a brilliant, firework-like denouement...
Actor Jonathan Epstein as the Pastor takes full advantage of his newly-created role of pariah with brilliant results. Kolzak's adaptation enables Epstein to seize a once shallow caricature of a clergyman and transform it into a complex, brooding performance. Karen Ross is a good Mrs. Alving, adding a layer of sophisticated and casual confidence to Ibsen's troubled widow. Stephen Kolzak as the tortured painter Oswald gives an excellent performance; his harrowing breakdown is the one scene where emotion transcends Ibsen's carefully orchestrated social commentaries. Sidney Atwood as Engstrand and Helena Snow as the ambitious Regina handle...
...Malek himself) he is at heart a can-do management expert who, he claims, spent only about one per cent of his time on "responsiveness" while at the White House and CREEP. Watergate was the last strand in a web that entrapped an efficiency-minded businessman and his brilliant ideas, according to this picture. Malek was, he points out, one of the few Nixon aides to avoid indictment. "I still don't think anything I did was illegal," he says...
...offspring of Manhattan's original "drag" dance troupe, Larry Ree's Trockadero Gloxinia Ballet, in which Bassae, Anastos and Taylor were members. Ironically they defected because Ree refused to permit them to take male roles. "I love partnering," says Natch Taylor, "so I was fired. Let a brilliant solo technician dazzle the audience with fancy footwork, let me dazzle with my lifts...
...childhood dreams. "There was a senate," Bingham says, "and he pretended to represent Oklahoma. He threw himself into it, and I'm sure he saw himself as a Senator." A streak of vanity surfaced; opponents noticed that Vidal always presented his better profile during debates. A less-than-brilliant student, Vidal never made it to the advanced English class. But he published poems and stories in the school Review, began and abandoned a novel, and changed his name from Gene to Gore. His graduation yearbook named him Class Hypocrite...