Word: dunaway
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...regnancy?the goddesses of film and tube?has produced a plethora of pregnancies. Currently expecting: Jill Clayburgh, 37; Sissy Spacek, 32; Mimi Kennedy, 33; Blair Brown, 32; Donna Summer, 33. Another group of ripening screen beauties have only recently had their first babies. Among them: Ursula Andress, 45; Faye Dunaway, 41; Jane Seymour...
...Faye Dunaway belongs to this breed. After a 17-year absence in Hollywood, she returns to Broadway's Little Theater with a vehicle no sturdier than balsa wood, but she never lets the audience forget that she is driving it hell-bent on its voyage to nowhere. Author William Alfred, Abbott Lawrence Lowell professor of the humanities at Harvard, launched her on the road to stardom in his play Hogan's Goat, about political shenanigans among the Brooklyn Irish in the 1890s. Now back on the same turf, Alfred mounts a sentimental archaeological dig for nostalgic relics dating...
...Dunaway caroms onstage as a 14-year-old on roller skates and it may just be the larkiest moment of the poor girl's life. Orphaned all too soon, Frances Duffy is sent to live with a long-suffering aunt and an uncle (Bernie McInerney) bent on incest. When she strikes out on her own at 18, her luck with men is not conspicuously better. Eventually she weds a local Lothario (Terrance O'Quinn) who treats her to the bitter delights of being the wife of an alcoholic. Only her young son solaces her, and she counsels...
...language bruises the ear, ricocheting between period brassiness ("There's one slick bozo," "There's this bimbo there givin' me the glad eye") to sorry flights of pseudopoetic home truths. On the other hand, the nickelodeon-like music of Claibe Richardson tickles the ear. Apart from Dunaway, the only one who threatens to run away with the show is Designer John Lee Beatty, whose delightfully real open-air trolley car crisscrosses the stage on real tracks. -By T.E. Kalem
...rituals we never saw--when, indeed, this is Gert's first appearance on stage? What use that Gert, played by Beverley May, is as plump and wonderful and all-forgiving as society's collective grandmother, her perfect Brooklyn accent wrapping itself around the traditional phrases with a naturalness Faye Dunaway's inflections never even approach? What use, even, to give us the moment of Fran and Jo-Jo's traumatic kiss, if we are to learn two acts afterward that the final break between them came later, when she returned from the date in the wee hours and he raged...