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...late work, Titian never ceased to develop. Perhaps to a modern eye, late Titian is the most moving of all, for it goes beyond the pictorial rhetoric that made his success. It is broken, impressionistic and no longer interested in the classical ideal. From its smoky melancholy come Lear-like outcries of pessimism, whose fullest expression is reached in The Flaying of Marsyas, perhaps the last of his paintings...
Those earnest souls who passed the early decades of this once dangerous, vulnerable actor's career awaiting his Hamlet are doubtless going to be dismayed that his first sustained screen appearance since becoming eligible for Social Security is not in something sort of Lear-ish. But The Freshman is no small thing. Well, actually, it is a small thing. But to a moviegoer deafened by and reeling from the rolling barrage laid down by the early summer's big box-office guns, the determined modesty, the unsprung affability of Andrew Bergman's comedy are precisely what make it treasurable...
...campaign he has flown to London to do work as a consultant for an engineering company, and to Japan for a meeting of the International Olympic Committee. When not crossing one or another ocean, he has raised money from celebrity friends in Hollywood and New York City (Norman Lear welcoming him on the West Coast, Gloria Steinem on the East...
...with titles crammed three deep into every trendy market niche. Some 2,800 new magazines flew off the presses in the past decade, 584 in the past year alone. Foreign media barons opened their wallets wide, and American entrepreneurs -- from Hartz Mountain pet-food magnate Leonard Stern to Frances Lear (ex-wife of TV producer Norman) -- rushed into the circulation game...
...KING LEAR. Hal Holbrook is the ousted monarch at Cleveland's Great Lakes Theater Festival...