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...Vatican's threshold and books a room for the journalist just down the corridor. As is usually the way with such fictive establishments, the place is a hotbed of perversion, frustration and bad manners. Presiding over these various follies is an iron maiden passing as a nun (Glenda Jackson), who gets her jollies by encouraging everyone else in theirs, then condemning them...
Tart-tongued and tempestuous Actress Glenda Jackson, 39, has played fiery female roles ranging from Charlotte Corday (Marat-Sade) to the D.H Lawrence heroine Gudrun Brangwen (Women in Love). Little wonder that the Academy Award-winning actress has been cast as the spirited Sarah Bernhardt who often demanded that her theatrical fees be paid in gold. "I feel I know her," says Jackson, on the set of Sarah. "She refused to be stifled or live her life to other people's conventions." The Divine Sarah, in fact, liked to take naps in a satin-lined coffin to remind herself...
Separated. Glenda Jackson, 39, acid-etched British movie actress (Women in Love, A Touch of Class); and Roy Hodges, 46, her stage-director husband; after 17 years of marriage, one son. Jackson not only announced her divorce plans but also vowed she would never remarry: "The last four years of our marriage have been horrible...
Your drama critic says that Glenda Jackson [May 5] has reduced Hedda Gabler's "Dionysian will to freedom" to a case of "suburban jitters." Is that a "travesty" or an updating? Hedda was trivialized before Ms. Jackson took her up. The "unfulfilled woman" has become a cliché, and that is indeed a tragedy...
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...