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Lillian, William Luce's one-woman play that opened on Broadway last week, is not about this actual Lillian Hellman. Luce, who celebrated Emily Dickinson in The Belle of Amherst, culled Hellman's memoirs to put onstage something approximating the way she saw herself. The result is far from objective history. But it works absorbingly as ribald, poignant entertainment. One of the world's great actresses, Zoe Caldwell, enacts the writer's conversations and confessions in a blend of eerily precise impersonation (down to wearing Tea Rose, Hellman's favorite perfume) and voluble, free-spirited performance...
Twenty-one years, two Tony awards and five movies later, Kline, 38, has established himself as one of the most diverse and appealing actors of his generation, at home on Broadway as a runaway soldier in Shaw's Arms and the Man or a rapacious, loony buccaneer in The Pirates of Penzance, onscreen as a psychotic lover in Sophie's Choice or as a nice-guy running-shoe entrepreneur in The Big Chill. Eager for acceptance as a classical performer, he has performed Richard III and Henry V for Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival in Central Park. Last...
...first, anyway, Soviet audiences and museumgoers will probably be shown only the most traditional aspects of American culture, such as its major orchestras and Broadway musicals. If history is any judge, ordinary Soviets, who tend to be more conservative than their American counterparts, may not like much new American art. Until lately, in fact, few Soviets considered abstract art to be art at all. One of the exhibits Soviet officials have approved, interestingly, is a selection from three generations of the Wyeth family, whose work is solid and representational...
...Murder (1959), with its detailed courtroom discus sion of a rape; and Exodus (1960), for which he defied McCarthyist blacklisting by hiring Scenarist Dalton Trumbo; of cancer; in New York City. A successful producer-director in Vienna before coming to the U.S. in 1936, he worked on Broadway and in Hollywood, where his first triumph was the masterly thriller Laura (1944). He also acted on stage and in films, often as a menacing Nazi, a role many of those who had wilted under the "Otto-crat's" frequent tongue lashings regarded as entirely appropriate...
...worked with such leading lyricists as Ted Koehler, Johnny Mercer, E.Y. Harburg and Ira Gershwin. Many of his hits, such as Let 's Fall in Love, Blues in the Night, That Old Black Magic and One for My Baby (And One More for the Road), survived forgettable Broadway and Hollywood musicals to become repertoire standards for gifted interpreters like Frank Sinatra and Barbra Streisand...