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FOXFIRE by Susan Cooper and Hume Cronyn...
...that as a didactic, neo-conservative agenda is to miss the tone and temper of the work. Foxfire has already been called a "hillbilly Our Town," which is close to the mark. And even those with less than a lifetime's acquaintance with the work of Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy must know that this pair could strike songs from stones...
...situations for your episodic comedy about American life on wheels, you get: cute hookers, more bickering couples than a Bronx highrise, a town that paints itself pink, an elephant on water skis, and some funny car crashes. In a large, bland cast (Beau Bridges, William Devane, Teri Garr, Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy), only Beverly D'Angelo stands out as an overripe woman who can't say no, and for whom "the International House of Pancakes is the one consistent thing in my life." The rest of this Freeway is like 107 minutes of bad road...
...Pulitzer Prize last season, although no one is quite sure why. The play concerns two old people, confined to a nursing home, who get acquainted over the card game that fills the too-many empty spaces in their lives. A somber theme, but the performances of Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy under Mike Nichols' direction are a joy. At the Wilbur...
...Game. In this first work by Playwright D.L. Coburn, Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn feint and parry with a sparkling professional finesse polished through decade after decade after decade...