Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ROMEO AND JULIET (Caedmon) is a strange romance in this recording. Albert Finney, who can be as forceful as TNT, has conceived a Romeo who sounds like a world-weary anti-hero out of Chekhov. Claire Bloom is girlishly gigglish; yet Shakespeare's Juliet is young only in years...
When Superman is enjoyable, as it sometimes is, the overall lack of cohesion matters little. When the multi-colored super-hero gets introduced to someone and he says "Glad to meet you, I'm Superman," what difference does it make if the character he meets appears in one scene, fails...
Joel Schwartz's last play, Mine Eyes See Not So Far, was a long tortuous examination of single character heightened by a fantasy play-within-a-play. His latest offering, Touch, takes on a whole family with much of the same dramatist's skill, more humor, but unfortunately less discipline...
But even though the play enters around a celebration for the son, the son, the true central character is Aunt Emily, cutting pictures from magazines, dictating taped letters to Tom, feigning deafness. And with Fran Ansley, the role assumes an even greater dimension. The wispy hair, the uncertain movements, the...
Mary McCarthy chose character study rather than plot to get her through those seven years, and the movie has followed her example. Dottie (Joan Hackett) of Chapter 2 fame, is from Boston and decides to lose her virginity with a Greenwich Village artist. Helena (Kathleen Widdoes) is the daughter of...