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Dimitri Villard as Neoptolemus brought little insight and meager stage presence to a demanding part. Neoptolemus, an honest, forthright youth, is forced by Odysseus into a double reversal of character. In order to fool. Philoctetes, he must pretend to be naive, that is, he must "play" himself. Villard's vapid interpretation excluded all this complexity. Thus, when the time came for him to break down and tell all to Philoctetes, he had not prepared the audience with any previous dramatic tension. His moment fizzled...
...Best Man) Vidal. assigned by a magazine to examine Conservative Goldwater with a liberal eye. Vidal protested to a Goldwater aide, who, obviously fearing the sharp edge of Vidal's prose, hustled up to Goldwater and warned: "Look, Barry, this is a guy we can't fool around with." Vidal promptly got his appointments...
...than we could be." Producer David Merrick, the Shubert Al ley Catiline, came to that conclusion some time ago, claiming that Jean Kerr influenced her husband during performances by a series of codelike nudges. Kerr responded in print with a riposte that made Merrick look like 44 kinds of fool, or roughly six short of the mark. "She likes me, that crazy girl," wrote Kerr. "Surely, Mr. Merrick, someone, somewhere, has liked you well enough to give you a little dig in the elbow. No? Ah, well...
...others were awaiting arraignment, the students became calmer and more cautious, and order returned to the streets. Telephone and telegraph facilities were strained to the limit, with messages from students to parents, and parents to city officials. Most were angry, but one father told the police: "Keep the damn fool in jail. I'll be down in three days...
...Being the villain, he finds, helps him "get rid of a lot of anxiety," and besides, a basso's roles are more convincing dramatically. "Can you imagine," he says, "having to make something out of a character as stupid as Leonora? I'd feel a perfect fool...