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Barbra Streisand drove costume fitters to the brink during the filming of Funny Girl by continually changing the padding in her bras. Playing Julius Caesar in Cleopatra, Rex Harrison allowed his own skinny frame to be beefed up with foam rubber, so much that the daggers kept bouncing off him during the death scene. So reports Oscar-Winning Designer Irene Sharaff, 64, describing the care and costuming of actors in a new memoir titled Broadway and Hollywood, Costumes Designed by Irene Sharaff. Stars are like "anyone else in underwear," she insists. In The Bishop's Wife (1948), for instance...
Leonard, Sid Caesar and Mel Brooks, who spatter their routines with Yiddish vulgarisms. Their stage bilingualism, Howe argues, spilled contempt on themselves for being inauthentic and disdained Gentiles for rewarding them...
Wilder knew his limits as few members of the Lost Generation knew theirs. A onetime archaeology student, he took the long view. From Julius Caesar's Rome in his novel The Ides of March to Grover's Corners, N.H., in Our Town, it was "the ocean-like monotony of the generations of men" that fascinated him. He had a Roman mind and an American heart. He saw "the absurdity of any single person's claim to the importance of his saying, 'I love!' 'I suffer!' " But his democratic passion was writing about...
...numbers that get the biggest laughs and seem to ring the truest are, not surprisingly, the ones that involve Harvard in-jokes. "Dean Epps' Love Song" by Philip LaZebnik, a mishmash of double talk that praises love as a viable alternative, somehow sounds funnier than it really is, but "Caesar's Wife" by Peter Homans and Bill Johnsen, which has a whining Sissela Bok complaining about all those cocktail parties and privately longing to be married to "a Brutus," is right on the mark. "Tarts of the Arts"--by Paul Rosenberg and Ted Trimble--takes its cue from a familiar...
...many teenage readers as younger ones, he draws himself up in his chair with the air of a man about to reveal the answer to a profound moral question (expecting his reply to provoke dismay). "As Marc Antony said as he stood over Caesar's corpse, 'If you have tears to shed, prepare to shed them.' We have"--he pauses dramatically--"as many readers from age 16 to 25 as we have from age 6 to 15. As a matter of fact, you're almost too young for me to be talking to you." As for the kind of adults...