Word: doctorings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BIZET: SYMPHONY IN C MAJOR; "L'ARLESIENNE" SUITE (Erato). Grace, style, panache and a certain je ne sais quoi: Bizet had it all. Just what the doctor ordered when you're sick of the three German...
...just the tortuous plot that is disturbing. Jacob Press, who plays a doctor specializing in lobotomies, delivers his lines like one of his own patients. Press' imitation of a New Orleans drawl is not only bad, it is also insulting. And it bears a great resemblance to that of a Romanian character which Director Laith Zawawi played in Rope last year...
...then there is the doctor again. Williams specifies that this character should be a handsome blond. At first, such instructions appear trivial, considering that they do come from an author who describes even the design of the plates in The Glass Menagerie. But later, when Sebastian's sexual proclivities are questioned and when Mrs. Venable tells the doctor that her son would have liked him, these stage notes become quite important. Catherine even comments, "Cousin Sebastian was famished for blonds," calling herself and Mrs. Venable his "procuresses...
...probably guessed by now that Press, the actor playing the doctor, is not blond. There is nothing wrong with "nontraditional" casting, but doesn't it make more sense for the director to alter the lines of the person he chose for the role than to leave the audience puzzled...
...Singh in front of the former Kuwait embassy in southern Beirut. Placed under Syrian guard, he was quickly taken to Damascus and turned over to U.S. Ambassador Edward Djerejian. "The treatment was better than I expected," said Singh, a diabetic who was examined twice a week by a doctor during his captivity. "But there is no substitute for freedom in this world...