Word: directors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...viewer. Author John Fowles, adapting his open-end puzzle of a book, cuts away much of its elegance; but he retains the oscillation between illusion and reality and maintains the mystery to the final frame. Director Guy Green wastes footage on tepid erotic interludes, and some of his Grecian tableaux smack of spring pageants at Vassar. Still, he has a strong sense of place, and he uses the azure skies and limpid Mediterranean to give the story the cast of eternity and overtones of legend-in-the-making. In the final hallucinatory segment, he makes the screen a place...
...moan around the set with scarcely a shred of alleviating humanity. York's innate beauty and growing skills are dissipated in a role that calls for little more than wide eyes and elliptical chatter. What is most wrong with The Killing of Sister George is its essential conception. Director Robert Aldrich has regrettably decided to make this adaptation of Frank Marcus' play into pure Hollywood Gothica, in the style of his What Ever Happened to Baby Jane...
Repertory Theatre of Lincoln Center--Two interesting, if not great, productions--Lee J. Cobb in director Gerald Freedman's "King Lear" and Frank Langella and Anne Bancroft as the Shakespeares in William Gibson's new "Cry of Players." At the VIVIAN BEAUMONT, W. 65th...
Zorba--A great serious musical about living, loving, suffering and dying. John Kander and Fred Ebb wrote the immensely theatrical score; Joseph Stein did the book; and producer-director Harold Prince tied it all together with a finesse the likes of which have not been seen since Jerome Robbins' heyday. Herschel Bernardi and Maria Karnilova are the leads, with a strong assist from gutsy-voiced Lorraine Serabian, who heads a Greek chorus. At the IMPERIAL, W. 45th...
White received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1937 writing his thesis on Experimental Evidence for a Dynamic Theory of Hypnosis. From 1946 to 1950, he was director of the Psychological Clinic at Harvard. In 1957 he became chairman of the Social Relations Department, a post he held until 1962. He was made a full professor...