Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIED. Brooks Atkinson, 89, magisterial New York Times drama critic and Pulitzer-prizewinning foreign correspondent; of pneumonia; in Huntsville, Ala. From 1925 to 1960. Atkinson lent a cool, impartial presence to Broadway, interrupting his career to cover World War II and the postwar Soviet Union. After leaving the critic's chair, he wrote nearly a dozen books on the theater, travel and nature...
...Allen" of Allen's screen incarnations. As Tina, Lou's nails-tough mistress with a heart of rhinestone. Mia Farrow is a coarse delight; this is her best work since Rosemary's Baby. Bright as the spangled jacket of a has-been crooner, funny as any Broadway comic could dream of being, appetizing as a pastrami-on-wry sandwich at the Carnegie Deli, Danny Rose is almost impossible not to like. Hey, pal, would...
Winter may have come to Broadway, but the Fabulous Invalid has a spring in its step. After a sour start, with discouraging box-office receipts and with La Cage aux Folles the sole hit among the new plays and musicals, the season cheered up at the holidays. December brought a British farce, Noises Off, its chaos as finely tuned as a Daimler engine, and Noises Off brought in the pre-Christmas crowds. Then the Christmas-to-New Year's week (traditionally the year's best for ticket sales) recorded a $6,058,815 total, the second highest...
Revisited) turns Henry into a matinee idol, and will doubtless do the same for himself. Karel Reisz, Irons' director on the film The French Lieutenant's Woman, remarked that "Jeremy does have his Heathcliff side." Already, matrons from Manasquan to Massapequa are aswoon over Broadway's newest star...
...people whose company one mightily enjoys sharing. It proclaims Jeremy Irons as one of the finest young actors. It refines a dishwater dilemma, accommodating one's ideals to one's spouse, into a sparkling tonic. It marks the return of radiance -verbal, intellectual, emotional, theatrical - to a Broadway too long in the dark...