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Shakespeare's plays survive today not only because of the language but because of the enduring quality of the character's conflicts and motives. It is these conflicts and motives that Tourner caricatures in this play written during Shakespeare's heyday. The frivolity of court life, the superficiality of the nobility, and their preoccupation with pleasures of the flesh draw the playwright's satire. But unlike with Shakespeare's plays, a modern-day director is hard-pressed to give the vengeance play's intentionally superficial characters any meaning for a modern-day audience. The result, under the direction of Andrew...
Rheault says the National Lampoon royalties have dwindled considerably in the last few years, and are now "less than half" of what the Harvard organization received in the heyday of the Animal House period...
...least two things now vitiate the play's impact. In 1955, during the heyday of Freudian illumination, when the play first appeared as a one-acter, shortly to be revised and expanded to a two-acter, Eddie's love for his niece possessed shock effect. Incest isn't what it used to be. Furthermore, one doubts whether the current flood of illegal ah'ens cowers before an immigration official as if he had sounded a storm trooper's knock in the night...
...Rose Macaulay, telling a friend at the end of her life, "I think I'm going to die in a fortnight. When are you pushing off?" Quennell writes affectionately of Artist Augustus John, with his gypsy ways and tribe of illegitimate children; John was immensely popular in his heyday, yet "had nothing of the fatuous outward bloom, the glossy patina of self-approval, that goes frequently with public fame...
French adolescents, who were unborn in her heyday, flock to a Marilyn boutique in Paris' Latin Quarter and mimic the bouffant hairdos and casual dress styles of "La Marieleen." A line of Monroe dolls planned by a New York City manufacturer will include a $6,000, 16-in. porcelain model that is described as a replica of the star, with a fur coat and diamond earrings. It will make its debut next month at the American Toy Fair in New York. Last week, "Remember Marilyn" shops at Bloomingdale's New York-area department stores began offering a line...