Word: heartbreaking
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
AFTER SEEING a production of Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, George Bernard Shaw said, "I feel as if I want to tear up all my plays and begin all over again." Soon afterwards he began writing Heartbreak House. Although he subtitled the remarkable work "A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on an English Theme," the played turned out to be a quintessentially Shavian treatment of "cultured, leisured" British society before World...
Senelick's kind of expertise (echoed in varying degrees by the other actors), together with the excellence and complexity of the repertory's two other offerings, Moon for the Misbegotten and Heartbreak House, make an interesting Loeb summer season likely. Notwithstanding its flaws, even The Matchmaker is amusing...
READ Pauline Kael's I Lost It at the Movies and all the autobiographical sidetracks over psychic frustrations and coed heartbreak, though usually filled with raucous humorous, seem part of an introverted cultural temperament spent somewhere in the '50's, dated with Salinger and old Italian films. Read Wilfrid Sheed's Max Jamison, the chronicle of an honest theater critic's fall, and the author's ruthless lapsed-Catholic cynicism as he looks at a mass culture eating its discriminators might take you back to the self-protective cliques of '60's bourgeois intelligentsia...
...miles to see her son, much as I'm loved, run by her in a period of 30 seconds leaves you feeling a little empty. Of course, old Mom came up with a partial solution last April when she brought the movie camera and got me crawling up Heartbreak Hill...
...says Elaine May, who should know. She wrote and directed last year's A New Leaf, and is currently on location in Minneapolis to direct her second film, The Heartbreak Kid. A comedy scripted by Neil Simon about a man who expects perfection from a wife and is twice disillusioned, it stars her daughter Jeannie Berlin. "Directing is a way of looking at something and then communicating it," Miss May says. "It would be hideous to think that either sex took a script and in any way pushed it toward any point of view other than the author...