Word: lear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dimensions of that love are tested and proved in the course of the play. On the eve of appearing in King Lear, Sir has abdicated the realm of sanity, gone mad before his cue. In the aftermath of an air raid, he has fled into the center of town and shredded his clothes in a driving rain. Hospitalized, he releases himself and bombards his way into his own dressing room. What Norman is confronted with is a shuddering, sobbing hulk of a man who cannot remember the first lines of a play he has performed 426 times...
...more years. Norman, after all, possesses the hearty irascibility that Tracy seemed born with, and that Fonda achieved only in the making of On Golden Pond. At the beginning of the film, as Fonda lumbers about in gusts of frail menace, he angles toward playing a New England Lear with overcareful pungency. One gets the sense of Fonda's working hard both to convince the viewer that Norman is one ornery old sumbitch and to distance the character from the person we believe we have come to know as Henry Fonda. But coming as it does just after Fonda...
...ephemeral than Republican politicians hope. Democrats, Barone says, will be able to use the Social Security issue to particular advantage in the 1982 Congressional elections. "When people start thinking about getting old, it's a very emotional thing. You can't see the social security issue without seeing King Lear. The Democrats can capitalize on that...
...thing. In a society that is overloaded with writers, there must be imagination enough to contrive sunnier alternative life-styles for many of the fictional characters who otherwise will endure in the pain, anguish and futile passion imagined by their authors. Why, for one instance, shouldn't King Lear be seen in some truly golden retirement years, preferably in an adults-only community? And why not a tale in which Othello and Desdemona kiss and make up? Imagine Lady Macbeth joining the Gray Ladies. Or Molly Bloom enrolling in needlepoint class. Or Sir Clifford Chatterley making a successful pilgrimage...
...battle begins. Already the networks are sounding defensive, warning that if sex is successfully restrained, censorship of news and opinion will follow. Civil libertarians are readying a $2 million countercampaign in support of diversity, called People for the American Way and featuring TV public-service ads produced by Norman Lear, creator of All in the Family. (Moral Majority has announced that Falwell will demand reply time whenever a Lear ad appears.) Most important, advertisers are uneasy. Chairman Owen Butler of Procter & Gamble, TV's biggest customer ($486.3 million in commercials last year), announced in mid-June that within...