Word: fooled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the war, Alec resumed his prewar stride with scarcely a hitch, and somehow there seemed to be more muscle in it. In the 1946-47 season he played a deeply original Fool that struck the critics almost as strongly as Olivier's Lear, and he did a swingeing good De Guiche in Guthrie's Cyrano. About the same time he considered working in the movies ("On the stage I never seemed to have a chance to wear trousers"), and Director David Lean gave him the role of Herbert Pocket, the young swell in Great Expectations. The next...
...walked on lighter feet than portly, grey-haired Kermit Bloomgarden, 53, the first producer (The Music Man; Look Homeward, Angel] to win two Critics Circle awards in one season. He was also a walking contradiction to his own observation that "any man who becomes a producer is a damned fool." Two Bloomgarden hits of 1955 and 1956, The Diary of Anne Frank and The Most Happy Fella-also Critics Circle award winners-still have road companies going strong. "Together, the four shows net over $40,000 a week," grins Bloomgarden, "but, of course...
...most controversial performance is Eugene Gervasi's Fool. Gervasi's every moment was tremendously stylized, to the point where he seemed to have rehearsed in someone else's production. But he spoke better than most, and his mournful grace made a good foil for Lear's frenzy. Only in the scene on the heath did his method fail...
...wrote against debt like Dostoevsky. She had a desperate, long and painful affair with a romantic Italian who claimed to be the inventor of the first gasoline engine. She seems to have committed the one fatal mistake a woman can make with a man-she made him feel a fool. Came the day when her lover cut her dead in public...
...Guide & the Goad. To Lyndon Johnson, common sense has a special meaning. Says he: "One of the wisest things my daddy ever told me was that 'so-and-so is a damned smart man, but the fool's got no sense.' " By sense, Johnson means the art of knowing what is possible and how to accomplish it. He does not waste time on lost causes. He realizes that hot issues are rarely settled by victory for the extremists on either side. Always willing to give a little in return for a lot, Johnson is the Senate...