Word: crispin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...England and Saint George!" Len Cariou lacks that hortatory magic of voice and presence. He is manly, straightforward and appealing, someone whom troops would always follow into the next town but scarcely into that cauldron of death and glory which is what Shakespeare meant by immortalizing Agincourt on St. Crispin...
...madly ridiculous in his quivering intensity as the mad poet, he is incredibly coordinated as he juggles--with three balls, mind you--or somersaults or tweaks noses with a paddle-ball. He and his comrade the Captain (Michael Farrell) are rescued from hunger by Leander (George Sheanshang) and Crispin (Warren Motley), who have established credit with the Innkeeper (Richard Anderson) by means of fancy clothes and fancy talk. Motley is a sleek, clever confidence man, putting it over on everybody, even his friend Leander, who in the end turns against his sneaky wiles. Leander, the ostensible hero, is altogether...
...crass exploitation of people's credulity. Department stores across the U.S. are mounting astrological promotions. Woolworth's is pushing a full line of zodiacal highball and cocktail glasses and paper napkins. Bulls, goats, crabs and scorpions are beginning to embellish everything from children's clothes to writing paper; St. Crispin in Manhattan is offering its Park Avenue clientele "astronotes" for invitations. One Manhattan beauty parlor boasts a resident astrologer and twelve special hairdos, one for each sign of the zodiac. A perfume manufacturer is doing well with twelve zodiac scents...
Richard was even better than she was. He did the "death of kings" speech from Richard II and the St. Crispin's Day speech from Henry V, and he really sounded like an orchestra, although he stumbled over an unbelievable number of lines. Oddly, he was at his best reading not Shakespeare but D. H. Lawrence-a poem called Snake, which is one of his favorites in all literature. But the high point of the evening came when he and Elizabeth read the 23rd Psalm. He would read a line in Welsh, then she would read a line...
...broad streak of nastiness in a character, Grizzard plays the role splendidly, but something sly, evasive and insecure in his countenance and bearing saps all conviction from his attempts to play parts like Hamlet and Henry V. His "Once more unto the breach, dear friends" and St. Crispin's Day ("we happy few") speeches are not plunges of passion but sputterings of saliva...