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...COWARD DIARIES...
Approaching 62 and suffering from one of his recurring periods of unpopularity, Noël Coward sat down for a heart-to-heart with the wisest man he knew. "I don't care for the present trends either in literature or the theater," he confessed. "Pornography bores me. Squalor disgusts me. Garishness, vulgarity and commonness of mind offend me." Was it possible, he asked, that he was out of touch with the new decade...
They were like "two violent acids bubbling about in a nasty little matrimonial bottle." Divorced and remarried, they meet and fall passionately in love all over again. Liz and Dick? Well, yes, but also Amanda and Elyot, the bright and brittle lovers in Noel Coward's 1930 comedy, Private Lives. What could be more perfectly dramatic than for Elizabeth Taylor, 50, and Richard Burton, 56, to combine their ability to light a fuse with Sir Noel's talent to amuse? At a press conference in Los Angeles announcing their first joint outing on Broadway this spring, the blithe...
...1950s are remembered as television's golden age of drama, and for good reason: not only was a new generation of playwrights creating intimate drama for the anthology series like Kraft Television Theater and Studio One, but Broadway stars were bringing familiar plays into a million homes. Noel Coward and Lauren Bacall struck a happy medium in Blithe Spirit; Katharine Cornell exhumed The Barretts of Wimpole Street. But in a decade when just about every new Broadway hit was sold to the movies, producers had little interest in "settling" for TV's small money, tiny screen...
...Noel Coward was the master of the clipped, ice-cool putdown; George C. Scott is the master of the bristling, white-hot punchup. His voice is an explosion in a gravel pit, and he moves across the stage like a bulldozer in a china shop. Knowing that it would be folly to imitate Coward's brittle delivery and soigné manner, Scott has turned an airily sophisticated comedy into a rollicking, slambang farce...