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This Smurtz is specifically a walking directorial comment, carrying a special and limited message: behind these three acts of comic and pathetic folly are the forces of materialism and cultural prostitution. Shuman does his turn admirably. Looking for all the world like an afternoon at the Broadway Super-Market, he...
The father image is only an illusion. The Roman collar is as big a put-on as his accent and his wig. Under them is an effete, seething schizoid (Rod Steiger) who can kill when he assumes an identity other than his own. But who is he? New York'...
To the French truth seekers known as New Novelists, the trouble with traditional hesaid, she-said fiction is that it creates only the cozy illusion of life, not the awesome awareness of it. True awareness, they say, lies in the endless inner space of consciousness, and that can only be...
What happens before the last moments of director Joseph Timko's adaption of Adolpho Bioy Casares' story makes very little sense. Eight bizarre people, vacationing on an otherwise abandoned island, stand around for six out of eight scenes before letting us know what's doing. Self-consciously they sip drinks...
Equally interesting, if not always as successful, is Babe's substitution of a loudspeaker for the proverbial Shakespearian messenger: when a panicstricken Rome first hears that Coriolanus may be allied with the Volscians, Babe stages a fast dialogue between Menenius, the tribunes, and the loud speaker, eerie in the momentary...