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...other Crimson duo or Rita Funaro and Joan Gumowitz (second doubles) fell victim to an unlucky draw, meeting the number one team from Princeton in the first round...
Upcoming concerts: Leo Kottke and Leon Redbone this Friday at Symphony Hall; Joan Baez and Jesse Winchester May 21 and 22 respectively at the Orpheum; and America and the Pousette-Dart Band May 23 at the Music Hall...
...wanted that character to be the way music is in out lives," Rudolph said, responding to a question. "When you buy a record and play it, it is up to you what that performer is." Such thinking suggests a point of departure from the premises that underlay Joan Tewksberry's Nashville script, where most of the major characters appeared first as entertainment figures in one way or another but later came under some intense scrutiny anyway...
...distinguish it from its acclaimed forerunner. Rudolph's script is very conscious of the need to deal with its characters on their own terms, without any touch of caricature. A few of Tewksberry's characters bordered on becoming stereotypes; Chaplin's featherweight BBC journalist and Shelley Duvall's L.A. Joan are cases in point. Rudolph skirted this chronic problem by allowing his cast considerable freedom to exercise their improvisational skills. While he did bring a finished script to the filming phase of the production, Rudolph still placed a premium on preserving a certain force of spontaneity. And the final product...
Indefatigable Romantic. Terkel's prime failing is his unwillingness to contradict-or entertain a critical thought -about anyone who was nice enough to spend time with him. He listens rhapsodically as British Director Joan Littlewood says, "I'm sick to death of all these silly old political and social and educational systems which have got in the way of human expression." Not a word from Terkel, wondering whether those systems are not perhaps products of human expression. On the evidence of Talking to Myself, Terkel has rarely sought out people who actually run things. An indefatigable romantic...