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...enduring image of John Gielgud is that of a grand and dignified English gentleman. Think of that sonorous, burnished voice, those proud, aristocratic features. Then try and imagine him writing "[The] young men are certainly attractive, and of course they are mad costume and uniform fetishists, so my eye was continually titillated with corduroy, breeches, jackboots, et cetera!" That frisson of conflict between public and private man is part of the irresistible appeal of Gielgud's Letters, published this week. The 800-plus missives, written between 1912 and 1999, reveal a complex, often outrageous, character. Not only is Gielgud open...
...succeeds at a superficial level, uncovering plenty of unpalatable truths about Guinness. Sadly, Read brings us no closer to understanding the actor's art. The mask behind the masks remains in place. Guinness found his greatness in character roles. When he tried to escape what his early mentor John Gielgud tactlessly called "those funny little men you do so well" by playing Hamlet and Macbeth, he flopped. He scored as the schemers and observers on life's periphery; from the Fool to Laurence Olivier's King Lear, to an unforgettable gallery of cinematic disguises. There were the Ealing Studio roles...
Spacey also won't divulge any details of what he has in mind for the Old Vic. The theater has foundered since its glory days of the '30s, '50s and '60s, when its resident repertory company provided an artistic base for luminaries like Olivier, John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson and Maggie Smith. Although the Old Vic has continued to attract top performers, it hasn't housed its own company since 1998 and has lacked a unifying creative vision. Its walls are decaying from damp and it needs a new roof - which means that if London's famously inclement weather sets...
...Dolly and Aluminum made a glamorous, loving couple. She continued to act, notably in a "Crime and Punishment" with Gish and John Gielgud, and the wife of the villain in Alfred Hitchcock's "I Confess." But her main role would be as Hirschfeld's muse and playmate, his elfin inamorata, the one editor to whom he paid devoted attention. The two would be inseparable until her death 51 years later...
DIED. ROBERT WHITEHEAD, 86, debonair theatrical producer who brought Death of a Salesman, Medea and Orpheus Descending to Broadway and managed to make them commercial successes; in Pound Ridge, N.Y. Whitehead cast the greats, from John Gielgud to Katharine Hepburn...