Word: grizzard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fanny's son Tony (George Grizzard) preens like a lion before his own mirror, but process servers from Hollywood are nipping at his Achilles' heels...
...play offers no new insight and makes no clear point. It pushes nostalgia to the brink of extinction. Queen Mother Mary (Eileen Herlie) is a starchy matriarch with a cast-iron devotion to duty. Edward (George Grizzard) is a kind of superannuated adolescent with vague notions of modernizing monarchy. As for the Duke (Patrick Horgan) and Duchess (Ruth Hunt) of York, they caterwaul incessantly about not having had enough on-the-job training to assume the reigns of empire...
With a plot devoid of suspense, an air of regality is of the essence. Eileen Herlie strives for imperiousness and achieves glacial suburban pomposity. George Grizzard suggests a jaunty detached habit of command, but any show of passion is dissipated in petulance. All in all, one has the unsettling impression that a pickup cast of stewards and maids from the crew of the Queen Elizabeth II could have mimicked royalty more convincingly...
...bull-roaring cosmic paterfamilias and Bob Dishy as Adam is playfully endearing as a man whose innocence has been tampered with. As Eve, Australian-born Zoe Caldwell suffers from an imperial sibilance in her delivery, which somehow implies that the Garden of Eden was the first British colony. George Grizzard's Lucifer is best of all, a celestial Richard III combining a ravenous appetite for power with silky glints of mischief...
...terribly surprising that a number of quite gifted actors have banded together to produce plays that will help them attract that adorational enthusiasm. The group is called LARC (for Loose Actors Revolving Company), and it includes George C. Scott, George Grizzard, Anne Bancroft, Blythe Danner, Colleen Dewhurst, Julie Harris, Frank Langella, Maureen Stapleton, Jessica Tandy, Rod Steiger, Pat Hingle, Richard Kiley, Dustin Hoffman and quite a few others. They have, and they feel they ought to have, the determining voice on scripts. This is an error of the first order; actors are to scripts as seals are to fish...