Word: hamlets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...militantly antiwar, go racially berserk and are about to burn, maim or kill a dozen Negro orphans. Behind the injected element of fashionable social consciousness lies a cornball ro mance about the orphans' surrogate mother (Shirley Jones) and her erratic spouse (Jack Cassidy), who went off to play Hamlet and ended up as a circus clown. Shirley Jones looks decorative, and Cassidy is an inexhaustibly beguiling entertainer, but the scenes they have to play are sentimental postcards in need of falling snow. The trouble is that the show won't last until winter...
Muriel Spark's novels are somewhat predictable in form, but they'are always brief, funny, shrewd and a little daft. Usually, she takes a group of similar people-bachelors, schoolgirls, residents of a hamlet-and throws them into a common dilemma. The Public Image departs from that pattern...
ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD. Tom Stoppard's inside look at Hamlet, takes the little men of Elsinore and transforms them into little Everymen...
...something of a stunt when British TV Director Philip Saville went to Denmark's Elsinore Castle to make a television Hamlet, starring Christopher Plummer. Going to Greece to film Oedipus the King in an ancient amphitheater is also a gimmick, but it has paid off better. The stones of the theater at Dodona and the sere Greek hills behind them grandly evoke the atmosphere in which Sophocles himself saw his great tragedy performed. The local peasant faces among the extras give an authenticity to the hoi polloi that makeup men could never have managed...
...much as any body else, and they'll whoop and holler with the best of them. But what happened last week was the wildest thing in Sultan's history since the 1884 visit of the Black Diamond Minstrel Company. By the thousands, strangers streamed into the tiny hamlet hard by the Skykomish (Big Sky) River, 48 miles northeast of Seattle. As the incredulous Sultanites watched, onward trooped hundreds of hippies, pseudo hippies, camp followers, hangers-on, even some ordinary-looking folks. Then came the musicians with the weird-sounding names and getups - Country Joe and the Fish...