Word: glenda
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...world has not been waiting for, nor is it long likely to cherish Glenda Jackson's bizarre offering: a comic Hedda Gabler. She has apparently decided that Noel Coward is really the author of the play. Her performance at Washington, D.C.'s National Theater will certainly rank high in the annals of dramatic travesty...
Since no single aspect of Glenda Jackson's performance is unflawed, there is a wealth of errors to choose from. Hedda is a fastidious aristocrat and the proud daughter of a general. Jackson endows her with all the grace, style and elegance of Eliza Doolittle hawking flowers in Covent Garden. Hedda is broodingly neurotic and desperately bored. Jackson seems to be suffering no more than a fuzzy hangover...
Klute has the best male-to-female putdown line in recent movies, when Donald Sutherland says "That's so pathetic" to Jane Fonda. The best female-to-male one is probably when Glenda Jackson lays it on Oliver Reed in the hotel room near the end of Women in Love. Anyway, Fonda's performance here is peerless...
...without the women's movement. Millett's latest book, Flying, to be published in June, will tell all about her bisex life to an audience not so shockable. They have by now seen movies like Sunday, Bloody Sunday, in which a male lover is shared by Glenda Jackson and Peter Finch. They have read books like the bestseller. Portrait of a Marriage, in which Nigel Nicolson tells about the affairs that his happily married mother, Poet Vita Sackville-West, had with Novelists Violet Trefusis and Virginia Woolf. Other women, living and dead, whose bisexuality has recently been made...
...minor prizes) could have surprised only those who cling to the fantasy that Hollywood's Academicians enjoy rewarding controversy (The Exorcist), truth telling (Cries and Whispers, American Graffiti) or success that is merely modest (A Touch of Class). The best-actor and best-actress choices-Jack Lemmon and Glenda Jackson-were also safe and sane. He is a popular local boy; she is a remote great lady winning her second Oscar in three years. Youth and age were equally served by the selections of ten-year-old Tatum O'Neal and 71-year-old John Houseman, sometime producer...