Word: hara
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FIVE PLAYS (473 pp.)-John O'Hara-Random House...
George Bernard Shaw's splendid custom of appending argumentative prefaces to his plays-and, in a few instances, of dangling a play from an especially grand preface-has been taken up by John O'Hara, who between novels and short stories has had a largely unrequited hankering for the theater. True, O'Hara has written only one preface for five plays, but that one rings with large-spirited ill will. Some of his plays, says the author, might have reached Broadway "if I had been willing to take writing lessons from directors, but I know...
...center of this Vicksburg-on-Avon, Troilus himself was a Confederate lieutenant, and his faithless little old Cressida's motto seemed to be: More scarlet than thou, O'Hara. Pandarus oleoed between the lovers, with slicked-down hair and a Burgundy dressing gown, and made his last exit carrying a carpetbag. "As I worked on the play," explains Stratford Director Jack Landau, "it became clear to me that the division was not one country against another, one part of society against another. It's a culture divided against itself-in effect, a civil...
...twins-Hayley plays both-know nothing about each other; their parents separated when they were babies. Hayley the First is a demure Bostonian who lives with her mother (Maureen O'Hara); Hayley the Second is a rowdy Californian who ranches with her roughneck father (Brian Keith). The girls meet at camp, tumble to the situation, and switch places. At summer's end, Hayley the Second gets her first look at Boston and mother, and Hayley the First sees her dad. But dad is about to marry a proprietary blonde (Joanna Barnes) who plans to send her stepdaughter...
...Side Story in the fall; they have cast and scheduled a folio of properties that includes a film version of Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour, Two for the Seesaw, Irma la Douce, Toys in the Attic, James Michener's Hawaii, and John O'Hara's A Rage to Live. And they have multiple picture deals with dozens of high-density stars such as Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Dean Martin, Jason Robards Jr. and Yul Brynner. "I call them the myriad Mirisches," says Lemmon. "I don't know where they come from...