Word: heros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...humor is as contemporary as the minute hand on a watch. For example, the hero is about to enter college. His father asks him what he intends to major in. The boy replies, "Hotel management," since he dreams of running his own hotel. The father says that he too had had a dream, that of owning a liquor store, but it had never come true. He cautions the boy that he must be realistic and have something solid to fall back on. Replies the boy: "I'm minoring in cinema...
Miss May has apparently been majoring in stagecraft. As the neophyte director of her own play, she shows herself to be an accomplished pro, with a crisp and zany comic flair. From Gabriel Dell, the hero who plays the adaptation game from birth to death, she elicits a performance that is laugh-and letter-perfect. Expressions cross his face like clouds scudding across the sky: hope, bewilderment, apprehension, chagrin, humiliation, and wild fleeting moments of joy. It is the year of the loser, on and off Broadway: Dustin Hoffman in Jimmy Shine, Woody Allen in Play It Again...
When menaced by a revolver-brandishing intruder in his new play, Woody Allen implores, "Don't pull the trigger. I'm a bleeder!" Though no shot is fired, Play It Again, Sam is riddled with laughs. Apart from being a hemophiliac, Allen's latest hero, Allan Felix, is an exposed ganglion of neuroses, guilts and self-recriminations. He looks like a wilted scarecrow that would cringe at a sparrow's chirp. He has so many psychological hang-ups that he makes playgoers feel positively healthy, which may be why they tend to love...
...fantasy hero does not reject him -Humphrey Bogart. Bogey (Jerry Lacy) coaches him. Result: he ends up in bed with his best friend's wife. More guilt, more self-recrimination. Too much more of the same, perhaps, for the play does not properly progress along with the evening. However, it is amusement enough to have Woody Allen's kooky angle of vision, his nimble jokes and his woefully unconfident presence...
...Count's living theatre works just fine until the inevitable ingenue (Ellen Endicott-Jones) upsets all the artificial relationships. Anouilh never has time to exploit The Rehearsal's central conceit for he soon finds himself struggling to protect his ingenue from the cynics that surround her. Hero, the Count's alcoholic friend, takes over and the play sloshes forward lugubriously. Humbert Allen Astredo delineates his drunkenness with sensitivity, but there's just so much Anouilh packed into his long monologues, that he can't help but become tiresome...