Word: cat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harrison and Julie Harris star in In Praise of Love, and Ingrid Bergman is in The Constant Wife. Cleavon Little escaped Mel Brooks' clutches long enough to run off with the notices in Murray Schisgal's flip farce All Over Town, and Elizabeth Ashley returned triumphantly in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. The British sent over a generation of stars, including Alec McCowen and Diana Rigg playing together with the finesse of the Lunts in The Misanthrope, John Wood portraying a rapier-sharp Sherlock Holmes, Anthony Hopkins and Peter Firth in the psychological tour de force Equus...
...exercise in extra-conjugal domesticity, Same Time, Next Year. But the sleepers of the season-indeed, the main reason the season itself was a sleeper-were the revivals. Pirandello's The Rules of the Game and Congreve's Love for Love drew enthusiastic audiences; so did Cat and then Gypsy with Angela Lansbury. It was their success that signaled how theater audiences have changed...
Away from Broadway since 1964, she remembers audiences "looking as if they were hijacked-at the theater under duress." But when she opened in Cat, she was stunned. "You could feel the audience breathe-they were moved." They were also younger than they used to be. Says Producer Hal Prince: "Young people have begun to be exposed to serious regional theater. The idea of theater as serious entertainment, not just sitcoms, has rubbed...
...Popeye face is to encounter the resignation of an aging bullfighter contemplating his last fight. Only this time Art has won both ears and the tail. He was the surprise winner of an Oscar for his gentle, ruminative portrayal of a 72-year-old Odysseus adrift with his orange cat in Harry and Tonto...
...even have trouble with his costar. "Until the picture, I never liked cats. But Tonto is a helluva cat. He had two stand-ins-cats that looked exactly like him-in case he got sick or was hit by a car. But old Tonto was a real trouper, never used a stand-in once. In the last scene, where he's dying, I just looked at him lying there in his cage and I was really sad and shaken." Tonto amiably accepted Art's conversation, modeled on his uncle's chats with his dog. "I never thought...