Word: cliches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Throw Out the Clichés. From all over the world the letters poured in (one addressed simply to "Gilbert & Sullivan Purity Champion, Oxford"). As her fame grew, she took to rapping the prestigious productions of the D'Oyly Carte troupe (a recent D'Oyly Carte Gondoliers, she announced, was "shocking: Marco came on wearing jodhpurs"). By last week Crusader Alderley had 500,000 signatures to bolster her parliamentary petition...
Although many G. & S. buffs feel that the operas can only benefit from the removal of copyright restrictions ("Throw out the petition!" wrote one newsman. "Every last cliché, comma and full stop of it!"), Purist Alderley was more determined than ever to protect W. S. Gilbert from the depredations of popular arrangers. One, last week, even wanted to give lolanthe a "honkytonk beat" and retitle it Zaza Has a Piazza...
...Giorgio Prosperi have dealt out to the script. Neither evidently thought that an account of the Goya-Alba romance need include mention of her husband, or of Goya's wife and 20-odd children. The characters that do manage to squeeze into the script get lines so cliché-ridden that even the Count of Monte Cristo would wince ("I'll teach her who's the Queen of Spain!" cries the Queen of Spain). Actor Franciosa brings a certain expression to the role of Goya, but only one: that of a little boy holding his breath until...
...When the book was published in 1940, Hemingway hardly had to explain why a teacher of Spanish from Montana would give up everything to fight in Spain. But today Robert Jordan, even in the hands of as good an actor as Jason Robards Jr., is hardly more than a cliché cut out of old newspapers. Maria Schell was moving enough as Maria, but the sentimentally written character scarcely seemed real, while Maureen Stapleton lacked the necessary hardness for Pilar. Eli Wallach was superb as the irresponsible gypsy Rafael. But in a far too slowly paced production, it was only...
...Perfect Furlough. A frozen Army outpost in the Arctic, with central heating by Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis, makes a floe of comic clich...