Word: cleverer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Finch and Jackson are clever enough to fight their way through the musty veneer. Finch is both salty and regal, gently flamboyant without ever becoming grandiloquent, a trap that Rattigan's script sets for him at every turn. Because Jackson is an eminently subtle actress, her Emma Hamilton is not merely a creature of fire, but a vulnerability imperfectly concealed beneath layers of scar tissue. The supporting actors are stalwart, except for Michael Jayston, who suffers from a kind of congenital insipidity...
...mother named him Noël. That festive holiday spirit swirled around Noël Coward and his works throughout his life. His plays, musicals, and revues were marvelous parties. To the tinkle of cocktail glasses, he arched the languid magic wand of his cigarette holder and summoned up clever, dashing men and svelte, seductive women who danced divinely, sang bittersweetly and tottered into the tinseled dawn. None of it was remotely real, but it was often great fun, and that suited Coward perfectly to the very day the party ended last week when he had a heart attack...
Cyrano. Anthony Burgess's clever script is reduced to a devil of a state, but a little of Rostand's panache slips in and out between the songs. Christopher Plummer is terrific. 7:30 at the Colonial...
...cares if Carlos Castaneda was born in Tahiti in 1945, served in the French Foreign Legion and hides it all from your clever journalists...
...Dyan Cannon, "she said, 'Will you wash your face before you come? I want people to see what you look like.' I was intimidated by her dictating, pontifical ways at first, but now I just don't let her be my mother." Her fans find her clever, charming when she tries-and above all, honest. Adds Actor Dick Benjamin: "She never lies. She'll tell you if they don't want you and if she has gone as far as she can go. But I've seen her sell past the resistance...