Word: gazzara
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...YOUR LIFE (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Julie Harris plays a fading novelist, Lucrece, who makes serious charges against her old friend Paul (Ben Gazzara) Bryan in "The Rape of Lucrece...
...YOUR LIFE (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). The hero of this series (Ben Gazzara), who has only a short time to live and gads about a lot while waiting for the end, reluctantly agrees to defend a woman accused of murdering her husband. Color...
Shenandoah and The Loner are not the only ones who hastily contracted the wanderlust bug after noting how well The Fugitive was doing on the lam. The most blatant copy will be Run for Your Life (NBC), in which Ben Gazzara is told he has 18 months to live (roughly three TV seasons). So with the grim reaper on his trail, he sets off to live dangerously all over the world...
...play's hero (Ben Gazzara) has been abruptly freed of his past at 18 by amnesia suffered in World War I. At the age of 36, he is claimed by several families, and when he stumbles on his real relatives, he begins to loathe the self that was. As a boy, it appears, he was cruel to small animals. He hated his mother (Mildred Dunnock), and she hated him. He crippled his best friend in a fight over a chambermaid. He had an affair with his older brother's wife (Nancy Wickwire), who is more than ready...
...able but seemingly perplexed cast can scarcely redeem itself, let alone the play. Ben Gazzara sets the acting tone of the evening with a performance of marmoreal monotony. Everyone labors strenuously over the point that Anouilh talkily belabors: to be robbed of the worst, or the best, past is not a theft but a gift. Anouilh further argues, without his later agile irony and cogent wit, that a man can indeed escape his past, which suggests that the young playwright still harbored at least one fond and vastly foolish illusion...