Word: debuted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Allen made his debut as a performer at a dim Greenwich Village boîte called the Duplex. It was a fairly unusual première: few audiences, after all, have ever seen a man turn pale green every night. "It was the worst year of my life," admits Woody. "I'd feel this fear in my stomach every morning, the minute I woke up, and it would be there until I went on at 11 o'clock at night. I was trying to be cerebral. I was writing for dogs with high-pitched ears...
Also making his Festival debut is Marc B. Weiss, who has lit the show with unerring taste and skill. Especially effective is the night lighting. In a departure from custom, Brutus and Antony deliver their eulogies of Caesar in the evening, with flickering light coming from flaming torches held by four of the assembled commoners...
...Have and Have Not. Bogart is an anti-Vichy gun-runner; Bacall, in her screen debut, gets to tell him if-you-need-anything-just-whistle. Forget Hemingway (the filmmakers did), but Faulkner helped write the script. Howard Hawks directed. Bogart is "Nietszche in dungarees" and Bacall's come-ons are hilarious. UNIVERSITY FILM SOCIETY. 105 Emerson Hall: Wednesday, 7:30 and 9:30. Admission...
...audience," admitted Playwright Tennessee Williams, 61. He got his chance last week, when the role of the hard-drinking doctor in Williams' Small Craft Warnings fell vacant for three evenings in an off-Broadway production. Nothing daunted, the author donned grease paint and made his stage debut. Later, he turned up onstage again for a question-and-answer session with the audience. "Could you hear me back there?" he asked worriedly. "Sometimes," was the consensus. Williams' verdict: "It was excruciating. I never want to do it again...
Chinese Menu. It was a far less gaudy finale than Ponti had provided for his New York debut in March. Then the audience had been given a written list of the pianist's repertory of 48 flamboyant encores and invited to select their favorites, Chinese menu-style: one from Group A, two from Group B, and soon...