Word: fixedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...voice for it; also he considers it an all but unplayable part. He imagines Shakespeare having a drink with the great actor Richard Burbage and becoming fed to the teeth with Burbage's bragging that he could play any role at all. "I'll fix you," says Olivier's Shakespeare, who goes home to write Othello...
...confinement of sea life makes people fix upon subjects with intensity, if only to keep sane. You meet men with the most immense knowledge of the Bible, say, or of internal combustion engines. You remember them for the sharpness of their mental edges; always, you remember them...
...talk about themselves and the others in the room. The remaining four do not talk, but instead express themselves through jazz, playing as the mood strikes them. Finally, the man with the powder--the connection--arrives, and each junkie follows him in turn to the bathroom for his fix. There is more talk...
...with the crowd in character, bumming cigarettes and money. During the play--which was largely improvised--they made remarks about members of the audience and roamed up and down the aisles. By the end of the second act, when the junkies entice one of the cameramen into taking a fix, the audience had been throughly involved; I, for one felt that I knew the misery and desperation of narcotics addiction...
...Cowboy, the connection, Carl Lee turns in the best performance of the movie: he is bitter and cool with his eyes, his hands, his whole body. And in the role of Jim Dunn, the filmmaker who follows the others into the john for a fix, Roscoe Browne conveys insecurity and fear with stilted mannerisms and gauche use of hip slang. The four musicians (Freddie Redd, Piano; Jackie McLean, alto sax; Michael Mattos, bass; Larry Ritchie, drums) play hard-driving, original jazz of the Charlie Parker variety and are believable addicts as well...