Word: grace
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SWEET CHARITY. As a dancing doxy with a heart of gold, Gwen Verdon is one of nature's eternally winning losers. Choreographer Bob Fosse adds redeeming grace to Neil Simon's feeble script...
Despite this indulgent direction, the film has moments of brilliance and grace. The wide Indian countryside is mistily evoked without calling undue attention to itself. Shashi Kapoor gives ironic strength to the role of the rich young Indian who mocks Hamlet's indecision but cannot force himself to choose between women. Felicity Kendal manages to be pathetically believable as the ingenue of innocence and insight. But it is Madhur Jaffrey as the film star who dances away with the show. Pale and supple as an ibis, she slithers through the film like an erotic ivory temple carving come...
...help. The two principals played against fuzzy, torn transparencies in a ramshackle slatboard set that was simply disgraceful, and moved underneath two ugly purple-specked quadrangles that had absolutely no function. An engaging jazz trio that sang mocking platitudes with Gleem-bright smiles was a lonely ray of grace amid the general desolation...
...nothing--she made the performance of Brahm's first piano concerto a singularly exciting experience. She managed the big octave crescendos in the first movement without any of the woodenness of tone that frequently accompanies dynamics of that magnitude. She handled the rapid accompanying passages with facility and grace. She may have flubbed a few chords, but her communication of the pounding rhythms and building emotions hypnotized everyone. Especially impressive was the quality of sound she achieved in the beautiful second movement theme of triplets: every tone in the right hand sang...
SWEET CHARITY. As a dancing doxy with a heart of gold, Gwen Verdon is one of nature's eternally winning losers. Choreographer Bob Fosse adds redeeming grace to Neil Simon's feeble script...