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...June 8, Gremlins will arrive, looking to scare you silly. This is no idle threat. Spooky as a slumber party in a graveyard, the picture is buoyed by a hip, good-timey sense of humor and buttressed by a marketing campaign that means to get a furry doll into every child's birthday bundle. But Gremlins has enough style and savvy to stand on its own as the summer's most original Hollywood picture. Like so many other recent works produced by the film-school generation, this is at heart a movie about movies, and about the innocent...
...Doll's House follows Norwegian housewife Nora Helmer's burgeoning self-awareness as her husband learns of a deception she committed to save his life. His unsympathetic and selfish reaction leads her to question the basis for her marriage and her place in her society. The major problem with the traditional feminist interpretation is that much of the detail has become dated: turn of the century Norway is not 1980s United States. The Lowell production circumvents this potential flaw by emphasizing the underlying human relationships rather than the specifics of Nora's situation. Nora's struggle is transformed from that...
WHAT WITH controversy over the Pi Eta Speakers Club and the What is to be Done problems with Wellesley. Harvard feminists recently have had a lot to keep themselves busy. Lowell House Drama Society's current staging of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House resists the temptation to capitalize on this furor. By shifting the play's emphasis from feminist to humanist, the production loses none of the original interpretation's power while finding a deeper and more universal message...
...Rank, it is Julie Glucksman's Nora and Brad Dalton's Torvald who make the play work. Dalton effectively portrays Torvald's flawed character, almost a caricature of intolerance and insensitivity. Showing no understanding of human imperfection or feelings, he constructs a dream world of perfection around his doll-wife Nora and cannot understand her violating it, even to save his life. In lesser hands the role could come off as a mere foil for Nora to rebel against. It is to Dalton's credit that his Torvald is not only real, but also sympathetic; we understand how Nora cold...
Come back with us to working-class Los Angeles in the 1940s, when hubby went off to war and the little woman stoked the home fires on an aircraft assembly line. Kay Walsh (Goldie Hawn) has left her doll's house to play Rosie the Riveter and fall into an uneasy dalliance with her boss (Kurt Russell), a 4-F Romeo who has seen one Alan Ladd movie too many. Meanwhile, Kay's nice-guy husband (Ed Harris) has joined the Navy; to her, for now, he is just a memory on the mantelpiece...