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...rehearsal techniques that James Burt, the director, uses are out of the ordinary, too. The actors, in their parts, improvise scenes that are not in the play. Thus, they become more familiar with their parts and more involved with each other. These are methods employed by improvisatory theater, which involves everyone in the audience, too, but in this case they only appear in the rehearsals...
...overcome the staging problems, Burt and Shea have come up with a number of tricks, some more successful than others. The film clips of the Decembrists being busted and Pushkin being shot, and Bekhmetyev's slide-show for the Czar, ease the action over places where words would have been too bulky. Similarly, the projected title for every scene is of great aid in following a very complicated plot...
...other figures that crowd about Lermontov-Pechorin, the most striking are Czar Nicholas and Bekhmetyev, the head of his Secret Police and Varvara's husband. James Burt makes the Czar a clever and proper bastard, and an amusing one. Jason Kanter, as Bekhmetyev, manages to create the figure to which, in some ways, Lermontov aspires, a man who lives by "intellect alone," devoid of emotion, manipulating and destroying the lives of others with absolute control...
FELICIANO-VERY SPECIAL (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A musical 60 minutes, starring Vocalist-Guitarist José Feliciano, with Guests Andy Williams, Glen Campbell, Dionne Warwick and Burt Bacharach...
...MARX BROTHERS AT THE MOVIES, by Paul D. Zimmerman and Burt Goldblatt. Next to a reel of their films, this excellent book offers the best possible way to meet (or revisit) the Marx Brothers in the happy time when they had all their energy and all their laughs...