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Brief Encounter. Premier television movie adapted from Noel Coward's play about two romantic lovers bored with their spouses. Starring Sophia Loren and Richard Burton. Ch. 4, 8:30 p.m. 1 1/2 hours...

Author: By Lester F. Greenspoon, | Title: TELEVISION | 11/7/1974 | See Source »

George S. Kaufman, Dorothy Parker, Oscar Levant, Noel Coward, Malcolm Muggeridge, Mary Martin, Judy Garland, etc. It all depends on whose ox is being goosed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Sep. 16, 1974 | 9/16/1974 | See Source »

...Simon's 'Haven't Got Time for the Pain,' and people like it." While Rubins thinks "today's music is good," and considers Laura Nyro "mindblowing," he admits a prejudice: "Nothing is quite up to the 30's and 40's stuff. Nothing can compare with the simplicity of Coward's lyrics." Rubins pauses and sings a few bars from a Noel Coward hit: "My funny valentine, you make me smile with your heart." Short and sweet...

Author: By Michiko Kakutani, | Title: What's on Josh Rubins's Mind? | 7/12/1974 | See Source »

...follow the likes of Coward and Hart has been a dream of many an aspiring songwriter, and Rubins is no exception to the rule: "When I was younger I did want to go to Broadway. Now the basic thing I wanted to do when I was 18 is no longer a fantasy. I know a lot of people in the business." So Rubins will finally leave the womb of Cambridge to seek a living in New York. "I'd be thrilled--thrilled if I could support myself doing anything involving the arts"--and that includes writing songs, teaching acting, writing...

Author: By Michiko Kakutani, | Title: What's on Josh Rubins's Mind? | 7/12/1974 | See Source »

...Noel Coward himself acted in the London production of Private Lives is the 1930's (as Elyot), and he found it a trying, though successful, experience: "It was more tricky and full of pitfalls than anything I have ever attempted as an actor." Hutson and Lewis, as Elyot and Amanda, are a sharp, strong, and attractive duo who avoid most of Coward's worst pitfalls--abysmal dialogue, kitschy scenes, and trite psychology--and maximize Coward's well hidden strengths--the parody of English manners and social institutions, the art of verbal thrust and counterthrust, the sharp criticism of women...

Author: By Martin Kernberg, | Title: Taking Up a Coward's Gauntlet | 7/9/1974 | See Source »

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