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...example of the work's appeal came in May of 1849, when on the same evening in New York City there were three simultaneous productions, starring three eminent Macbeths of the time--William Charles Macready, Thomas Hamblin, and Edwin Forrest. These performances led to what has become known as the Astor Place Riot--the worst fracas in theatrical history, besides which even the celebrated free-for-all in Paris at the premiere of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring seems pale. At the final tally in New York, 31 persons were killed and more than 150 injured. Such is the incredible...
...they want to control rats, next it'll be the Jews--you know what that means." The elder justice returns to Alaska to write a book about a liberal-thinking rat that is forced to bite ghetto children to defend his constitutional rights. President Nixon tells a Lake Forrest, Illinois Grand Jury investigating Federal complicity in Vietnam war crimes, that to reveal his sources would violate his rights as a published author...
Waltz begins with a singing narration stating that we are about to glimpse Johann Sr., "founder of the house of Strauss." Lyricists Robert Craig Wright and George Forrest make great capital of this rhyme, employing it later when Johann Jr. is toiling over his operetta and the narrator boasts in his brazen tenor: "In 43 days/ Inside this house/ Johann Strauss/ Composed Die Fledermaus...
...feisty, hard-drinking old rogue named Red (Richard Widmark) who signs him out of the reservation school. Red teaches him how to ride broncs and how to fall to up the odds. Together they tour the tank town rodeo circuit, always following the same strategy. Tom (Frederic Forrest) takes a tumble on his first ride, and Red offers high odds on the next event. The cowboys eagerly plunk their money down, and Tom rides flawlessly. It is a profitable little con, but Tom had something more conventional in mind. Fed up, he finally deserts Red and becomes a main attraction...
Widmark is in top form and Forrest is a real find, a new actor with the kind of presence and subtle authority that can animate a characterization, not dominate it. Millar makes good use of him, especially in a devastating last scene when Tom returns as a man to the reservation school. "I've learned the new ways," he says, eyes full of grave irony suggesting scars without self-pity. The rodeo champion now wants only to tend the reservation horses, an ambition that suggests both a new awareness and a capitulation, a final defeat. ∎Jay Cocks