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...Fleming's way with talent in The Wizard of Oz: "When [Judy] Garland couldn't stop breaking into giggles at the pseudomenacing advance of [Bert] Lahr's Cowardly Lion, Fleming escorted her off the Yellow Brick Road, said, 'Now darling, this is serious,' slapped her on the cheek, then ordered, 'Now go in there and work.' It must have been one carefully calculated slap from a man with impressive upper-body strength who was also a master of the 'corkscrew punch.' ... Apart from that smack, he stuck to his approach of treating young actors like adults - and the results could...
...that Beckett was, in large part, a comic writer: unquestionably deadpan but characterized by (his phrase, from Happy Days) "laughing wild amidst severest woe." Godot is really a spectacle of mordant vaudeville; the role of Estragon in the first Broadway production was taken by that comic Cowardly Lion, Bert Lahr; and in a 1988 Lincoln Center revival, directed by Mike Nichols, the stars were Steve Martin and Robin Williams. The set up to the play's gag: they wait for Godot. The punch line: he doesn't show up! Maybe this is concept comedy, an essay on the deflating...
...there a hip-hop musician you feel the world should listen to more? -Cara Lahr in Rockville, MD So many are relevant in different ways. I love when the Black Eyed Peas ask, "Where is the love?? but I also love when NWA said "F? the Police" The discussion between police and community started at that point. If you life in extreme poverty sometimes you see the police as the occupying force. That they are there in some way to keep you in poverty and keep the system in place. And whether it is right or wrong...
...there a hip-hop musician you feel the world should listen to more? -Cara Lahr in Rockville, MDSo many are relevant in different ways. I love when the Black Eyed Peas ask, "Where is the love?? but I also love when NWA said "F--- the Police" The discussion between police and community started at that point. If you life in extreme poverty sometimes you see the police as the occupying force. That they are there in some way to keep you in poverty and keep the system in place. And whether it is right or wrong...
...retrospect as it was to him at the time. Few books have so vividly portrayed the initial fragility of what now seem eternal works of dramatic writing. Schneider specifies some literate imbeciles who offhandedly dismissed the talents of Beckett, Harold Pinter and Eugene Ionesco. He recalls how Bert Lahr willfully misread Godot, trying to recast it as one of his old vaudeville routines. He depicts runaway egotism among the stars of Virginia Woolf, one conniving to get her husband hired in place of her leading man, another threatening to quit because everyone else in the cast was taller...