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...scene with a child is the trial death; an actor is either upstaged or dragged down. Though one hates to badmouth someone who doesn'v yet have a complete set of teeth, Jason Harvey is really bad. He decants iambic as if he had taken elocution lessons from Alfred Hitchcock, and he can barely be understood past the eighth row. When there are at least a half-dozen undergraduate actors and actresses at Harvard who could have pulled off the role, Kilty's choice is worse than a crime; it is a blunder...
...willful propensity to exaggerate and misrepresent, Williams merits the scrutiny of a master biographer, capable of comprehending his personality, capturing his voice and explaining that unquenchable need for self-evocation. Donald Spoto might seem up to the task, based on his shrewd if unadmiring assessment of Alfred Hitchcock in The Dark Side of Genius. But Spoto's The Kindness of Strangers is merely thorough, precise and methodical. Almost perversely, it stops short of risking deep perception of the playwright or his plays: it focuses instead on a tedious hunt for the minutiae of names, addresses and trivial incidents that made...
Dewitt can handle it, of course, having taken Professor Hitchcock's film course. "The Psychological Thriller in the 50's and 60's," last fall. Should a brush-up be necessary. Rear Window (Science Center B) is circulating again and so is your loving child's brilliant essay about...
...likely to play romantic leads than cool intellectuals or forbidding colonels whose aloof or aristocratic facades fail to conceal the emotions within. On the London stage, he mastered some of the great Shakespearean roles and gave definitive performances in plays by Chekhov and Ibsen. His screen credits include Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes (1938), Dead of Night (1945) and The Browning Version (1951). Knighted in 1959, Redgrave struggled to keep working and in 1979 made his last major appearance when, already nearly disabled, he played a wheelchair-bound stroke victim...
Written by Hitchcock in the '40s, Rope's use of Rupert's superman ideology makes the play a powerful parallel to Hitler's frighteningly effective use of racist and anti-Semitic propaganda. In both case, immature minds grasped on perverse ideologies, which fueled by intense emotional needs, culminated in disaster...