Word: corin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...naive, and such a fine foil to Rosalind that their scenes together continually spark the show. ames Burt is a good Touchstone, if a strange one--his line readings are often incredibly fast, his hand gestures are always excessively generous, but his physical agility is delightful. Brian McGunigle (Corin) and Philippa Lord (Audrey) provide perfect comic cameos, while George Rosen doubling as Duke Senior and Duke Frederick, struggles bravely and often successfully with the one marked piece of ineffective casting in the production...
...from the beginning ("In my childhood I remember only things like sunny days"), though it wasn't always easy to see why. She developed acute anemia and was so weak that she went to the park in a wheelchair until she was six. She remembers Vanessa as "simply smashing," Corin as "incredibly brilliant," and her mother as "the mother of all the mothers...
...Squeak Cheerfulness." Sir Michael, Rachel and Corin are, of course, delighted with the girls' success, but no more than the girls themselves. Each one seems genuinely to hope that the other will win the Oscar, but neither is the sort to grump for long if someone else gets it.* For one thing, they keep too busy to think about prizes and such. In Manhattan, Lynn gets a thorough workout eight times a week in Black Comedy. Her role calls for some adroit tricks, since the action takes place in a house where the light fuse has blown...
...Diving Board. And then all at once, in the middle of a smile, she gets that funny blank look in her eyes, as though a light had been switched off inside her head. "She just switches off," says Corin. "It's a very strange thing. She's done it as long as I can remember." But Vanessa has an explanation. "I have a bad habit of not giving much of myself," she says, "of saving myself up for work. To lose oneself in a role?that is what one lives...
...thing was pacifism. In 1961, she plunged militantly into Britain's ban-the-bomb movement, was arrested four times during demonstrations, stood up before a rally in Castro-style battle dress and sang a Cuban revolutionary song. Sometimes Vanessa suffers for her romantic impetuosity, but then, as Corin points out, "Vanessa likes to suffer." She transforms her sufferings into performances. "She is mad," Sir Michael says, "I mean divinely mad. She is an inspired actress...