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...risks were considerable. It is never easy to compete with a theater legend, even of one's own making. The play itself, a 4 1/2-hour tragedy about the pitiable denizens of a flyblown bar, lacks obvious commercial appeal. And as the central figure, the best-liked man, Robards must torment his friends, show himself capable of cold-blooded murder, then celebrate his certain doom. The women in the play are all prostitutes, and family life is seen only as a remembered torment. The text is rich in humor, but much of it verges on the cruel or the macabre...
After that, Foreman went back to Texas, state of his birth, on a self- assigned mission to spread the Word. This he did on street corners in Houston, as well as in any flyblown chapel of bedrock fundamentalism that would hear him out. Now and then, you would catch him in the papers (requiem for a heavyweight, that sort of thing), but for the most part the fighter kept his head down. Four years ago, he erected the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, twelve pews in a little metal prefabricated building on an acre of Houston ground. The church...
Reid, a New Yorker writer since 1959, acknowledged five instances, and said there may have been others, in which he modified facts. By far the most troubling episode was a December 1961 "Letter from Barcelona" in which Reid described Spaniards sitting in "a small, flyblown bar," jeering openly at a televised speech by the then Dictator Francisco Franco. In fact, the bar as described no longer existed at the time of the broadcast, and Reid watched Franco's address in the home of the establishment's onetime bartender. Two of the main characters in the article were composites...
...company throughout the ten-month season and blend smoothly into the overall musical texture. Instead of garnishing glorious music with pageantry and posturing, Hamburg produces cohesive, hard-hitting dramatic performances, in which the text is as important as the score. And instead of sticking with proven but sometimes flyblown versions of operatic warhorses, it mounts eight new productions every year, two of which, like Jacobovsky and The Visitation, are commissioned works by contemporary composers...
...trails after the sailor, she and the stone wall traipse from Greece to Alexandria to dullest Africa, for no other reason, it seems, than to run into an overblown Levantine (Orson Welles) and a flyblown white hunter (Hugh Griffith). In the end the sailor remains unfound. Perhaps, ventures Bannen, this romantic ideal never existed. "But if he didn't," allows Moreau. "we would have had to invent him." Translation: We all need our illusions no matter how false we know they are. After seeing Tony Richardson's most recent flopdoodles-Mademoiselle, The Loved One, and now Sailor-moviegoers...