Word: cowards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...deepening bitterness is complemented by a growing hope. To the traditional image of Somoza as a fat, lying thief a new demension has been added--that of a coward. The dictator is now mocked for living in an underground redoubt, surrounded by bodyguards, for being afraid to appear in public. One young woman claims that he is acutally dead and that the country is being directed by a mummy...
Seth Riemer misinterprets his part as Giacomo, the family coward the only Cenci who would cringe at the thought of committing a murder. Riemer tries to convey this with an effect accent that seems anachronistic...
Phillip laZebnik's lyrics are at their best sublimely witty in the tradition of Noel Coward. Cole Porter and Tom Lehrer. "We'll be the perfect duet Two mouths sucking the same Sucret." "Call up Ronald Reagan and ask for my Friend Flicka." There are ten songs in the long first act, and nine in the second act, which is only 40 per cent as long. Some of these--"Power to Persuade" and "Team Song are the standouts--are clearly what makes the second act so much tighter than the first. The script is not quite funny enough--though...
Private Lives is the highest level of British fluff, written by Noel Coward, directed by John Gielgud, starring Maggie Smith and John Standing. A custardy respite from reading period. At the Shubert Theater through Saturday night only...
Whatever the reason, the actor's outburst that Churchill was a despicable coward and an overriding dictator, in fact, "a medieval bandit king," met with more puzzlement than outrage in England. Said Churchill's grandson Winston: "When I had lunch with Burton recently, he almost thought he was Churchill." As for Burton, he issued a rambling apology, if not a retraction...