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...ensemble-named for its performing space, a chastely remodeled former grand-opera house-is mounting productions ranging from Hamlet to Godspell, from a transvestite Arsenic and Old Lace to a studiously Edwardian The Doctor's Dilemma. Phillips will direct four of the nine main stage productions and co-direct three more. (The schedule also includes five children's shows, adapted from stories by Paul Gallico.) The actors, many of them veterans of the Phillips era at Stratford, work in true repertory: a weekend visitor can see four plays in two days; at its peak during December, the Grand...
...forebears were Northumberland farmers, and at first young Ralph dreamed of becoming nothing more eccentric than a pharmacist. Then he saw a production of Hamlet in which the leading actor drew his sword and scraped it against the floor of the stage. This weird and wonderful noise mesmerized the teenager, and he resolved to take to the stage. With no schooling in the dramatic arts, Ralph had literally to buy his way into an amateur repertory company. His audition speech drew this appraisal from the company's manager: "It's frightful, Richardson. You could never, never be any good...
...factions prepared to discuss the freshly announced cease-fire last week, the meeting was suddenly scrubbed because the delegates could not agree on where to gather. After a day of delicate negotiating, a neutral site for the newly formed "security committee" was chosen: a deserted bank building in the hamlet of Al Mahattah, halfway between the Druze town of Shuweifat and the Christian village of Kfar Shima, about three miles south of Beirut. Around 11 a.m. they began pulling up in their Land Rovers. Gathering in the same place were emissaries of the Lebanese Army, the Christian political alliance known...
...passed without notice when it occurred in mid-March 1968, at a time when the war news was still dominated by the siege of Khe Sanh. Yet the brief action at My Lai, a hamlet in Viet Cong-infested territory 335 miles northeast of Saigon, may yet have an impact on the war. According to accounts that suddenly appeared on TV and in the world press last week, a company of 60 or 70 U.S. infantrymen had entered My Lai early one morning and destroyed its houses, its livestock and all the inhabitants that they could find in a brutal...
...beloved Molson's and calling each other "hosers." Now they have been given 90 minutes of screen time and a license to steal children's lunch money. Strange Brew, which the two stars also directed, sets the Cheech and Chong of malt into an informal remake of Hamlet and includes "quotations" from Star Wars, Superman, W.C. Fields movies and Polish jokes. (Sample dialogue, Bob to heroine: "Hey, you're real nice. If I didn't have puke breath I'd kiss you.") On TV Thomas and Moranis are sophisticated parodists; on film they are clod...