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...movie Mary, Queen of Scots, with Vanessa Redgrave in the title role and Glenda Jackson as her archrival, is playing in more than a dozen U.S. cities. Jackson is also starred in TV's Elizabeth R, a six-part series that has broken all ratings records for noncommercial television and is up for seven Emmy awards next week. On the New York stage, Robert Bolt's Vivat! Vivat Regina!, with Claire Bloom as Mary and Eileen Atkins as Elizabeth, has just finished a Broadway run and is scheduled to go on tour in the fall. Also...
...THAT'S only if you're the type of person who can be bored at a light show. The stage is always in motion, the costumes are sumptuous, the imagination runs rife. What Russell did with Glenda Jackson as a fading star, he has done also to Sandy Wilson's "The Boyfriend" as a musical. Milking the musical tradition for all it is worth, he's put the cream onto the screen...
...question, Twiggy, gets the boy friend pretty much through divine right as star of the film and through no readily apparent merit of her own. As Polly Browne, understudy cum assistant stage manager of a seedy British theater, she is called out one day to replace the aging star (Glenda Jackson) who has hurt her foot in a tram accident. Remember, credibility is not the point. Just before Polly is due to go on--and face the sparse matinee audience--the moment occurs that pushes the film straight into baroque fantasy from what appeared to be a straightforward musical...
...TWIGGY and the boy friend are the most unreal character in the film, although the tycoon, with his ubiquitous cigar, comes a close third. Christopher Gable, who plays Tchaikovsky's lover in Russell's The Music Lovers (Glenda Jackson played his wife) doesn't look much different here; it's all in his surroundings. Russell doesn't show much interest in his actors, using them more like props than people. In Women in Love, with good actors speaking a script derived from D.H. Lawrence's novel, Russell's direction added that overripeness that characterizes Lawrence's prose...
...funny dialogue. John Schlesinger, in Sunday, Bloody Sunday (which is the better half of this double bill and makes it well worth seeing) is a master at this art of making you laugh and cry at the same time rather than in sequence. While the children tended by heroine Glenda Jackson are unbearably cute they are also unbearably noisy, precocious and at the same time deeply wounding in their perceptiveness...