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Jonathan sees everything as a reflection of himself, and demands that Tina center her world around him. Famous Author George Praeger (Frank Langella) tries to assert his dominance by refusing to get involved. He sees himself as a cool, invulnerable man irresistible to women-but he is unable to deal with the women he attracts. Instead of enveloping Tina like her husband, he warns her repeatedly to keep her distance...
...bliss, so Tina tends to get turned off when Jonathan yearns for a "little old roll in de hay." She begins a passionate "sex thing" with a surly, sarcastic, sadistic writer who taunts her and lusts after her with equal ferocity. After one such session, when the writer (Frank Langella) has roughed her up pretty badly, Tina screeches the kind of lumpish epiphany so typical of Mrs. Perry's scripts: "You're sick! Sick! You have to put on that big virile act because you're really a fag." She returns to Jonathan who humbles himself before...
Every character in the script is a clumsy caricature, so there is not much the actors can do. Carrie Snodgress is good enough as the bedeviled Tina, and Frank Langella contributes many moments of force and subtlety to his boisterous role. But Richard Benjamin, one of the standouts of Catch-22, takes a giant step backward. The part is a ludricrous stereotype; Benjamin plays it-or is directed by Frank Perry to play it-like a buffoon...
PRUDENTIAL'S ON STAGE (NBC. 10-11 p.m.). Problems of heart transplants are dramatized in "The Choice," an original play with Melvyn Douglas, George Grizzard, Celia Johnson and Frank Langella...
Repertory Theatre of Lincoln Center--Two interesting, if not great, productions--Lee J. Cobb in director Gerald Freedman's "King Lear" and Frank Langella and Anne Bancroft as the Shakespeares in William Gibson's new "Cry of Players." At the VIVIAN BEAUMONT, W. 65th...