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...HAL ASHBY'S NEWEST FILM, Lookin' to Get Out, is framed by illusion As flashy neon titles appear in the opening sequence, two brightly dressed magicians work their chichi miracles on a glittery Las Vegas stage. The closing credits roll over a juggler trying in vain to make something of a very state routine...
Ophelia's brother Laertes is usually considered to be an Angry Young Man. But since this label has been commandeered by Walken's Hamlet. Chris Sarandon's Laertes has chosen to take on Hamlet's customary poetic sensibility. Sarandon displays the vocal virtues that were evident in his Prince Hal a few weeks ago. His Laertes is beautifully spoken, with plenty of variety and modulation. Yet he can summon up power when demanding of the King where his father Polonius is (even threateningly laying a sword on the King's shoulder), or when voicing his eagerness to engage Hamlet...
...ever shifting moods, interests, personalities: now the apoplectic boss, now the courtly charmer, now the scholar and Renaissance man, now the buccaneer business baron. If Turner were a character from Shakespeare, and he has that kind of incandescence, he would be in equal parts the nobly ambitious Prince Hal, the impulsively belligerent Hotspur and the comically self-indulgent Falstaff. Says Schonfeld: "If Ted Turner were a color, it would be red-the red of the surface of the sun." Adds another Turner aide, insisting that he not be named: "Do I like Ted? Do you like a volcano?" Turner...
DIED. Harold (Hal) Foster, 89, creator in 1937 of the richly colored, exquisitely drawn Prince Valiant comic strip (now syndicated in 350 newspapers), which was celebrated for its scholarly research on the medieval period and the King Arthur legend; of a heart attack; in Spring Hill, Fla. "God in his wisdom endowed me with certain imperfections," said Foster, "but I have made Prince Valiant as I wish God had made...
...captures Falstaff's deep love for Hal, a love that is nothing less than paternal (for Falstaff is as much Hal's father as is King Henry); he is quick to tousle the youth's hair or put his arm around Hal's shoulders And he makes "If to be old and merry be a sin" as touching as Shylock's "Hath not a Jew eyes" Chalk up another triumph for the doting Dotrice...