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...sprawling in agony; a few minutes later Brick kicks the life out of Big Daddy by telling the old man that he is dying of cancer. Williams' vibrantly durable characters stalk the mind. Try to forget Maggie the Cat, or Blanche DuBois or Big Daddy or Stanley Kowalski, the hairy ape in a T shirt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The Laureate of the Outcast | 3/7/1983 | See Source »

...climax. He seems to operate on a well-known theory; when in doubt, shout. There are better ways to convey pride, strength, and fearlessness. All this is regrettable, for Hotspur is penned as a virtuoso of language. I kept getting the impression that Walken was rehearsing for Stanley Kowalski and repeatedly wandered onto the wrong set. (The AST's 1962 mounting of this play had similar problems with a Hotspur played by Hal Holbrook...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: A Mixed Bag at Stratford | 7/16/1982 | See Source »

...pipe, leafs through the pictures of his pre-Rocky days, a ritual of memory: "There's me in a doorman's jacket I stole to keep warm. There's me with an earring-I actually delivered Perrier in that. Another with my torn-T shirt Stanley Kowalski look. Every six months I'd go to one of those picture machines to see how fast I was deteriorating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Winner and Still Champion | 6/14/1982 | See Source »

...Lise Kowalski...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 17, 1982 | 5/17/1982 | See Source »

...workers worked, and manners were exquisite and marriages endured, and wars were just, and honor mattered, and you could buy a decent tomato. The lament for vanished standards is an old art form: besieged gentility cringes, indignant and vulnerable, full of memories, before a present that behaves like Stanley Kowalski: crude, loud, upstart and stupid as a fist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Have We Abandoned Excellence? | 3/22/1982 | See Source »

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