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DAMES AT SEA. A delightful spoof of the movie musicals of the '30s, with an enthusiastic and gifted minicast of six, including Bernadette Peters as Ruby, who taps her way to stardom in one day.
BOOKS Best Reading EDWARD LEAR, THE LIFE OF A WANDERER, by Vivien Noakes. In this excellent biography, the Victorian painter, poet, fantasist, and author of A Book of Nonsense is seen as a kindly, gifted man who courageously tried to stay cheerful despite an astonishing array of diseases and afflictions...
"My effort is to drive to the fullest extent those few talents that were given to me," the late David Smith once said. The brawny, Indiana-born metal worker was perhaps the most restless as well as the most gifted sculptor of an impatient nation and century. For 25 years...
Tim would not have made the film without her. He wrote the lines to fit his actress' phrasing and speech patterns--not always a wise idea, but definitely so in the case of Nora, who has the unusual and perhaps slightly frightening ability to be herself in front of a...
Calais to Coromandel. A painter, poet and fantasist, Lear-as Vivien Noakes' biography makes clear-was a kindly, gifted man in many ways as mocked by madness and petty affliction as Shakespeare's eponymous king. The later Lear, however, played his own gentle fool; his tragedy was wistful...