Word: cuckoo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cheri Theatre 2-Liza Minnclli in The Sterde Cuckoo. As you may have guessed, the place and phone are the same...
...adolescence funny? Isn't insecurity simply hilarious? And aren't young couples just as cute as can be? Director Alan Paula has combines these three never-fail jokes in a film which manages to be as boring as upstate New York, where it was made. Briefly, The Sterile Cuckoo is one of the other side of the generation gap's pleasanter fantasies of this side...
...much of The Sterile Cuckoo's lifelessness is from the book by John Nichols and how much is the result of Pakula's fatuousness is tough to say. But I didn't read Valley of the Dulls to see if the book was as bad as the movie...
...heroine of The Sterile Cuckoo is a happy little dumpling of a college freshman called Pookie, a name that holds promises of maudlin disaster. The movie fulfills them. Pookie (Liza Minnelli) is what used to be called, back in the dim and distant fifties, a kook. She does swell things like move in with her straight-arrow boy friend (Wendell Burton) while he is studying for his finals, puts tape across her mouth-'cause she's promised not to talk to him-and communicates with him by holding up signs. College is some bucolic wonderland where...
Following the one-acters at the Craft will be the first Boston production of Dale Wasserman's dramatization of the Kesey novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. This play was first performed on Broadway about six years ago, and flopped-presumably because this was before anyone much had heard of Kesey. The play got creditable reviews, particularly considering that it was before its time, and the Craft's decision to revive it at this time is both inspired and fortunate...