Word: duke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What Mayer sees in Measure for Measure is the Duke of Vienna parading vainly before television cameras, police brutality, and hippies -- the Johnsonian equivalent of Elizabethan fops. For his text, he seems to have taken the Duke's line, "This news is old enough, yet it is every day's news." In the program note, he dwells on the fact that the summer of 1604, when the play was produced, was a long hot summer of bad government and bad times...
...mean. Susan Channing has the part of Isabella to deal with -- one of the most ambiguous roles ever written. Yet she manages to be both touching and priggish, and she is always believable. And Paul Schmidt, though he may not show the power and the glory of the Duke, does do a creditable job with a part that goes on forever and ever...
...stride stylists influenced a line of jazz pianists from Duke Ellington and Count Basic to such modernists as John Lewis and Theolonious Monk. Yet the stride heritage is waning fast, and the Lion is as outspoken on the subject as he is on everything else. "A good many modern pianists," he snorts, "tinkle with their left hand while their right is going nowhere. Modern style, they call it; I call it cheating." But of course he is prejudiced. "There's nothing more beautiful," he believes, "than a two-fisted pianist...
...Dorado. The heavyweight crown in boxing may be up for grabs, but in the movies it is still firmly planted on the balding head of John Wayne. In El Dorado, though his lope may be a bit arthritic, the Duke still greets the opposition on a fist-come, fist-served basis, and the wrongo who tries to outdraw him still winds up feeling kind of shot...
Wayne this time plays an indestructible loner hired by a greedy cattle baron to gun down the drunken but law-abiding sheriff of El Dorado, Texas. When the Duke discovers that the intended victim is actually his tough old sidekick (Robert Mitchum), he and his horse head for the hills, and for a series of picaresque encounters with some memorable bit players, including a snake-eyed reptile of a gunslinger (Edward Asner) and a garrulous old Injun fighter (Arthur Hunnicutt). The cattleman hires the gunman to knock off Mitchum, and Wayne comes roaring back to town to help the good...