Word: gunn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Alexis married Craig Stevens; as her career faded at the box office, his bloomed in the Nielsens. Craig's urbane TV detective series, Peter Gunn, lasted three years, and the show is still rerunning; neither of them needs to work. Still, Alexis was never successfully cast as Mrs. Front Porch. She dabbled in summer stock, took lessons in French, Italian, dancing, yoga, singing, speed reading. "Once I studied to get a realtor's license," she recalls. "If things didn't go well, I thought I could sell real estate." With legs like that? No way. Last year she began taking...
...pitfall in recent years has been to regard Othello as a racially conscious black instead of the Elizabethan he always was and always will be. Thus Olivier was the embodiment of a calypso Othello, with a Caribbean accent and swagger. The highly stylized, slightly exotic Othello of Moses Gunn might have been a Cotton Club dandy. In the current revival at Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum, James Earl Jones makes of Othello a wounded animal, a Jack Johnson in agonized decline...
...suicide, he summons up an image of how he once smote a circumcised dog of a Turk. His love of Desdemona is a kind of image of love. His heart breaks when lago tarnishes that image, long before Desdemona herself is actually destroyed. Neither Olivier nor Gunn nor Jones has been able to convey this. Thus none of them has struck any consuming emotional fire out of the Othello-Des-demona relationship...
...prime standing as a Kultcha classic, Ritt hasn't stooped to the traditional homage Hollywood usually pays to Broadway hit-dom. The Great White Hope is severely divided, but many of the tensions the black actors manage to convey are true. At certain points-particularly when the splendid Moses Gunn, as an anachronistic black nationalist street preacher, accosts James Earl Jones after his character's return from a championship bout-the cast suggests the immense possibilities the story of the first Negro heavyweight champion could have held for artists who understood the period, its people, and the implications...
Darker Than Amber is hardly elegant, but like other stray examples of the type that have appeared over the past couple of years (Blake Edwards' Gunn and Paul Bogart's Marlowe), it proves that the tough-private-eye tradition is hard to kill...