Word: lear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hash marks of familiar sports drama, the picture aims to be a Southern-fried epic, and Lange nudges Babs toward that goal. She is Scarlett O'Hara who almost becomes Maggie the Cat -- until, in the '80s, she ends up so strong and nurturing she could be a Lear's cover girl...
...Years of colossal audiences and soaring ad revenues, however, bred complacency. "The networks closed their eyes to reality," says Ralph Baruch, former president of Viacom International and now a senior fellow at the Gannett Center for Media Studies. "They didn't fully comprehend the extent of technological changes." Norman Lear, creator of All in the Family and now the owner of six independent TV stations, sees the networks' distress as retribution for their copycat programming. "If these guys were standing in a circle with razors at each other's throats," he asserts, "they could not be committing suicide more energetically...
...KING LEAR. Ontario's Stratford Festival shows why it is the biggest repertory theater company in North America in this splendid staging. William Hutt excels as the timeworn king...
...been healthier. The $2.5 million deficit brought about by the last administration has been converted under John Neville, artistic director since 1985, to a projected $820,000 surplus this season. The old era's often staid and unimaginative productions -- typified by a dusty Twelfth Night and a ranting King Lear that toured the U.S. in 1985 -- have been supplanted by lively, risk-taking efforts, including innovative versions of Twelfth Night and King Lear, which are highlights of this year's offerings. Although the search has dragged on for more than a year to replace Neville, 63, who plans to retire...
...Lear, the young players are joined by William Hutt, 68, perhaps Canada's most distinguished stage actor, in what may be the performance of his career. His king is no autocrat but a dotard whose authority has long been a polite fiction. His plans for dividing the kingdom are a surprise to no one; his daughters' resistance to his extravagant wanderings are no meanness but utter common sense in the face of senility; the brutality they eventually show is brought on by invasion and civil war, both instigated by their holier-than- thou sister. Hutt superbly manages Lear's transition...