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...PLAYHOUSE (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Ralph Bellamy, Jane Wyatt, Inga Swenson and Gene Hackman people Robert Crean's drama My Father and My Mother, third original TV play on this season's Playhouse roster...
...actors. Penn is one director who, though able to control tone and response by shooting and cutting alone, nonetheless shows real concern for achieving a set of convincing and consistent performances from major and minor players. Several performances are considerable achievements in their own right. Michael J. Pollard, Gene Hackman, and Estelle Parsons bring grim authority to three dull and aimless lives. Faye Dunaway will be a great star, she already is, and Beatty, with his utterly credible portrayal of Clyde, finally comes into...
...show, the cast would take turns with an air rifle, shooting down the show's best-known props, the balloons, which had floated to the ceiling. It was a sublimation that kept them from plinking away at each other. At one point, Colleagues Rosemary Murphy and Gene Hackman refused to speak to Sandy offstage. But several of her revisions stayed with the show after she left-and even now adorn Any Wednesday productions in summer stock. In any case, she could do no wrong with audiences: her first-scene line "I'm really adorable" invariably got a rapturous...
...actual situations in Any Wednesday are neither wicked nor sexy, just amusingly compromising. A neophyte secretary, innocently directing proper strangers to the improper address, sends around Cass Henderson (Gene Hackman), an irately appealing small businessman who has come to town to beard John Cleves. When Mrs. John Cleves drops in, Cass poses obligingly as Ellen's husband. When John barges in, all four characters fall sudden prey to lockjaw or dropjaw. Then the comedy slacks into matchmaking...
...great-grandfather, as a place for staging amateur theatricals. The first important performance, a family diarist noted, took place on a "clear moonlight evening" on the day after Christmas in 1855, and was marred only by the fact that "some of our actors were delayed by a faithless hackman." Generation after generation, family actors staged everything from Henry IV and She Stoops to Conquer to melodramas such as The Brigands of Lodi and The Dead Shot. Famed Actress Fanny Kemble appeared at the Varieties as Mrs. Malaprop in The Rivals, but was so disturbed by the closeness of the audience...