Word: charm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...later work in West Side Story (for, in Field's staging of the "Times Square Ballet," the Army and the Navy become warring gangs engaged in a dance in the gym). Still, if it's to be a successful revival, On the Town should have some real contemporary charm...
...States, based in London. The premiere established her credentials in the face of a male-chauvinist editor; in the second segment, she got unprofessionally overinvolved in the tax problems of a home-distiller in Scotland. Both scripts were absurdly implausible and unworthy of the performer's literacy and charm. But Executive Producer Sheldon Leonard, who in better days produced I Spy and the old Dick Van Dyke Show, insists that Shirley will be the first TV comedienne to have an obviously healthy sex life. There is no sign of exactly what Leonard has in mind, but on Women...
...understandable lust for the bosomy barmaid (Margot Kidder) who is the town's tease. The second episode took a clumsy swipe at U.S. jingoism and even Viet Nam (a 1914 cavalry officer notes: "Sometimes to save a town, you have to destroy it"). But there is a loco charm and potential intelligence ticking in Nichols that distinguish it from most of the competition...
Julie Christie has always been a fine actress; Marion gives her a role suited to her talents. Her beauty is so ambivalent, and her charm so winning, that it is not difficult to see how she could be so many things to the men and to Leo. Alan Bates is an earnest Burgess (similar to his shepherd in Far From The Madding Crowd); Edward Fox (James's brother?) puts in a fine cameo as the scarred Trimmingham. The young Dominic Guard is suitably discomfited and ruddy as Leo. All are bathed in photographer Gerry Fisher's impeccable lighting, while Michel...
...combines Gallic charm with acerbic wit. As a working musician, he practices remarkable exactness and discipline. As a bachelor of 46, he is free to rise at 5 each morning to compose, and he often holds work meetings in his apartment at 8, thereafter running through as many as three rehearsals during the day. Boulez's mastery of conducting the modern repertory-from Debussy and Stravinsky to Webern and Olivier Messiaen-is untouchable. Next week he will start taking small groups of instrumentalists to Greenwich Village to proselytize among the hip young (TIME, Feb. 22). He also intends...