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Almost every technical element of The Hostage is relentlessly straightforward, from Jon Monderer's unobtrusive lighting design to Bundy's simple blocking. Chris Clemenson's set, while extremely well-crafted, poses a major problem for the show. High stacks of appropriately beat-up furniture and clutter surround a vast, empty space, thus forcing almost all action center-stage. When actors deliver their lines from near the bed that stands upstage they are sometimes inaudible and seem miles away, "swallowed up" by that infamous monster, the Loeb Mainstage...
Woman of the Year does feature a couple of lively supporting players who give the show an endearing humanity amidst all the clutter on stage. Helga, Tess's heavily Teutonic maid (Grace Keagy), has the best lines in the show and steals every scene she plays. And Jan, dowdy wife of Tess's first husband (Marylin Cooper), shares the best moment in the show with Bacall, a duet called "The Grass is Always Greener," in which the two women enviously examine each other's lives. Add a quality chorus (which is on stage far too little, given the musical talents...
...action toys still clutter the toy departments--Night Rescue Chutes Away, for instance, comes complete with a helicopter, a floodlight, and a half dozen survivors...
...designed by John Conklin, is a jungle of color, an obstacle course of clutter. The plethoric flowers do serve a purpose. Tracy Lord (Blythe Banner) is going to rewed one George Kittredge (Richard Council), an up-from-the-proles coal company manager. As everyone who has seen the matchless Katharine Hepburn-Cary Grant-James Stewart movie knows, the next 24 hours constitute a lifetime for Tracy. She takes a compromising midnight swim in the nude with Journalist Macaulay ("Mike") Connor (Edward Herrmann), sheds her fiance, and is reconciled to her ex-alcoholic, ex-husband C.K. Dexter Haven (Frank Converse...
...tangential pretensions and clutter, The Stunt Man never forgets the cheap pleasures of the funhouse, and in this fundamental modesty it becomes something unique. The simple high spirits of the ferris wheel save The Stunt Man from a pathetic failure. This film falls into the great American tradition of roguish, exploitative entertainment. This is a movie of sequins and comic strip naivete, of the three-ring circus. And Rush is a dazzling ringmaster...