Word: cowardly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drooping eyelids and acute satyriasis. Charlie uses jail the way some men use their country clubs-to make valuable contacts. Though he is a petty criminal, Charlie contrives to rub shoulders with the larcenist laureate of England, an elegant superpatriot of a prisoner known only as Mr. Bridger (Noel Coward). Britannia waives the rules for Bridger, who affects Savile Row threads, dines alone, and stabilizes sterling by masterminding foreign robberies from his cell...
...them can drive straight. They wreck cars, argue with each other, assault fat ladies on the Turin buses and infuriate the Mafia by treading on its turf. Throughout, Charlie's eyes remain at half-mast; his lassitude finally lulls the crooks, the polizia-and the audience. Caine and Coward play a splendid game of verbal tennis, but by the final reel the laughs are lost in an anthology of dull and deafening car chases...
...should have been obvious that Brigadier General Sir Harry Flashman was just too bad to be true. Liar, lecher, bully, coward and (according to his Who's Who entry, reprinted here) survivor of nearly every 19th century military disaster from the Siege of Lucknow to the Battle of Little Big Horn, he is as appalling and implausible a scoundrel as has ever shambled through the purlieus of the past. All the odder then that since this first volume of his purported "memoirs" was published recently in the U.S., all decked out with notes and glossary, no fewer than...
HOUSTON, TEXAS. Town and Country Dinner Theater. Noel Coward's classic farce Private Lives finds Amanda and Elyot, who were previously married to each other, in adjoining Riviera hotel rooms with their new mates...
Since Che (Larry Bercowitz) is supposed to be Che Guevara, the play poses as a kind of genital love-hate profile of U.S. relations with revolutionary regimes. In terms of Playwright Lennox Raphael's limited dramatic imagination, it is rather like Jean Genet rewritten by an inept Noel Coward...