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MERT AND PHIL. Flawed in craft but spunky in spirit, Anne Burr's unflinching drama dared playgoers to face the corruption of the flesh and the death of love...
...deadlier contest in the Ewing Eight ward of the Sloan-Kettering Memorial Cancer Center in Manhattan. He had been in and out of the ward since the beginning of his illness. To his friends there-an old woman with no larynx, a boy with no jaw, a man whose flesh had wasted away, and one or two people his own age-he became an un-defeatable rallying point. He mocked doom by plotting "jail breaks" and rebellion against the staff. He laughed at cancer by drawing and circulating absurd cartoons. Once, he and another man smuggled themselves...
...theatrical elements of the Mafia. So I tried to create a façade of not showing emotion, the sense of a man for whom all things were business." Strasberg also carried elements of Roth over into his own life-a basic article of Strasbergian faith-to flesh out the character...
...word or two about Albert Finney's curious performance. In trying to flesh out Christie's classic caricature, he has slicked down his hair, altered his voice to a sort of petulant croak and overacted stylishly, if not always enjoyably. Ironically, what works best for him are his eyes. They escape the whim of makeup and never play him false. Finney fills them with irony and cunning in a struggle against all the shabby artifice that surrounds his face and smothers this hapless film...
Although the 95,000 islanders no longer eat "long pig"-the name their cannibalistic ancestors gave to human flesh-many of them are still rather remote from modern times. Tribes in some areas still use stone tools and hunt with bows and arrows. On Pentecost island, the favorite sport is free-fall diving from a 100-ft. tower to the jungle floor-with only a trailing vine tied to the ankles to break the fall a few inches from the ground...