Word: gielguds
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...never really felt that kind of pressure." Especially when he's not directing. British director David Grindley (fresh from directing Kevin Spacey in National Anthems at the Old Vic) is calling the shots for the world premiere of Some Girl(s), which opened May 24 at London's Gielgud Theatre and stars former Friend David Schwimmer as a man who, on the eve of his wedding, is compelled to have a final heart-to-heart with four ex-girlfriends. Acclaimed Venezuelan director Moisés Kaufman is handling This Is How It Goes, (which went down well in New York...
...wages of war remains onstage during the final lighthearted scenes, when the King shifts from fighter to lover, as if to mock his charm. The production is vigorous, persuasive, at moments unforgettable, and in Kenneth Branagh, 24, it features a potential heir to the legacy of Olivier, Richardson and Gielgud. Branagh has the animal magnetism of a leading man and the cerebral fire and ice of a character actor. He brings off the hortatory set pieces of command with howling fervor and excels at the gentle comedy of courtship, pouring his heart into the cracked vessel of his schoolboy French...
...learn how Hitchcock manipulates his cameras to make the indelible image of Norman Lloyd appearing to fall from the Statue of Liberty in Saboteur, and that many of the stage actors that worked with him, including Lawrence Olivier, Judith Anderson, and John Gielgud, originally disapproved of his stiff directing methods, but were later grateful for working with him on something so lasting...
...GIELGUD on acting
...died. He knew so many historical figures - George Bernard Shaw, Edith Evans, Orson Welles - it's hard to keep track; one 1952 note alone manages to mention meetings with Charlie Chaplin, Igor Stravinsky and Noël Coward. Editor Richard Mangan has mostly concentrated on the correspondents with whom Gielgud was intimate - including his mother, his onetime lover Paul Anstee, the actress Irene Worth, photographer and designer Cecil Beaton and the playwright Hugh Wheeler. The early part of the volume is dominated by correspondence to his mother (the only family member who figures prominently), and is full of excited career...