Word: cutenesses
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...another face. The gang's pettiness and cowardice, the naivete and condescension of the Salvation Army sermons, Bill's amorality, Lil's sexuality--these elements of Feingold's adaptation should have been emphasized in the production. The Brecht and Weill characters, as revealed in their songs, are not the cute bumblers of Jones' production. The two paint a much crueler, darker world, a world in which the little guys squander their energies fighting each other instead of their common exploiter. The ending is farcical in this production; Jones' interpretation sacrifices nuance and social commentary for humor. Happy End is amusing...
Because the commercial is composed of vignettes, extensive auditions are necessary. The search for the right cowboy ends in a compromise: "not too old, not too young, not too cute, not too Sicilian." Two girls have to be found who can talk on the phone while doing yoga headstands. One is rejected as "too Procter & Gamble"; another causes a small problem when she arrives on location without a bra under her skintight leotard. There are also serious research questions: Do Army recruits have telephones near their beds...
...movie has its moments--a cute line here, a nice touch there. Mostly, however, Nijinsky offers a series of stuffed Edwardian interiors with little passion to enliven them. Herbert Ross has done the unthinkable: made a film about dance that's heavy on its feet...
There, he will urge that "umpires, and not mediators, call the balls and strikes." (FAST has dozens of these cute phrases...
...tiny tap dancer, like Shir ley Temple, with rouged cheeks and an anthropophagous smile; she is Sara Stimson, a cute, brown-haired, solemn-funny child. She is seven years old, and she does just fine. She and Matthau play a nice scene in his room, when she says she is hungry and he gives her some dry corn flakes in a bowl. Crunch, crunch, crunch...