Word: humors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Three Sisters does not capture an audience's attention automatically; it is talky, slow-paced, and subtle. But it is also a deeply moving, relevant work, with sparks of surprising humor and even a touch of irony. It is to the credit of Serban and the ART that this genuinely gripping production has been mounted. Sadly, it is easy to envision an even more arresting version, in which Serban's odd conception of the sisters' plight did not overwhelm the gentle, quirky, quicksilver loveliness of the play. Even when bolstered by the elegant proficiency of a director like Serban, innovation...
There was a family echo here. Arthur Newman, "a brilliant, erudite man" with "a marvelous, whimsical sense of humor," at 17 had been the youngest reporter ever hired by the Cleveland Press, Paul says, but he had quit to go into the family business. Newman is uncharacteristically subdued in recalling his father: "I think he always thought of me as pretty much of a lightweight. He treated me like he was disappointed in me a lot of the time, and he had every right to be. It has been one of the great agonies of my life that he could...
...down in the sticks, with child, as an apprentice vet. Another show, The New Odd Couple (ABC, Fridays, 8:30-9 p.m. E.S.T.) has literally been here before. Oscar (Demond Wilson) and Felix (Ron Glass) are black this time around, but the new shading is poor cover for humor that is stale white bread...
...moment, but it set a style for television drama that St. Elsewhere is emulating with considerable success. The new show is populated by a floating rep company of actors, including William Daniels and the extraordinary Ed Flanders, that may be the best on the box. The show has speed, humor and diligence about even the most melodramatic of its plots, and displays the same kind of unblemished idealism about the basest narrative hokum that Actor David Morse catches so nicely in his characterization of a young intern...
...China, in which he is thought to hold an "amateur interest." That is about as far as the pieces take us. We have the fact of his terrible eyesight, which might explain his fiendishness on the tennis court, and we have one instance of his sense of humor, when he urged a cognac on a reluctant dinner companion, telling him, "You'd better accept. The KGB has a very long arm." Oh, yes, he is said to speak fluent English, although this was called into question by his use of an interpreter when he conferred with Vice President Bush...