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...HISTORY JUDGE by ROY A. MEDVEDEV translated by COLLEEN TAYLOR 566 pages. Knopf...
...thin and sketchy are the characterizations that one or two stereotypical words serve to define and exhaust the nature of the people involved. First comes the dutiful wife (Jessica Tandy) with her 50-year badge of marital honor. Then there is the earthy, pleasure-giving mistress (Colleen Dewhurst), the sympathetic lawyer friend (George Voskovec), a hostile daughter (Madeleine Sherwood) and a remorse-laden son (lames Ray). Finally, there is a flip nurse (Betty Field) and the trusted family physician (Neil Fitzgerald), who has been something like a brother to the dying man. As the characters talk, a mounting pile...
...short pauses, the long silences, filled the stage with the resonant, poignant music of life's approaching nighttime. In Albee's play, the air is filled only with unsaid nothings. If ever actors could save a script, these are the ones to do it. Jessica Tandy and Colleen Dewhurst, in particular, have and show the dramatic power, skill and sensitivity to raise Lazarus. But then Lazarus was the life of the party compared with AII Over...
...during the filming he kept revisiting Colleen. They remarried on July 4, 1967. "Independence Day," she says now. "It seemed only right and fitting." They live in tentative tranquillity in a rambling farmhouse in South Salem, N.Y., with their sons, Alexander, 10, and Campbell, 9. The children of Scott's second marriage, Matthew, 13, and Devon, 12, visit frequently, attracted in part by a burgeoning menagerie of four German shepherds, two ponies, 20 chickens, two cats, three doves and a swimming-pool bullfrog named Charlie. At the farm, Scott plays chess, bridge and golf with neighbors. His wife, a strong...
Scott speaks enthusiastically of working in the new Simon play, doing more directing and establishing a television repertory theater with Colleen and some friends. There is little in his profession he could not do if his private and persistent demons would give him a break. Scott has tried to strike a compromise with them. "Since childhood, the whole self-loathing thing was a big part of my makeup. Now I've learned to say O.K., I've screwed up. Then I try to make amends...