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...bill's sponsors are Mrs. Lena K. Lee, 58, a widowed lawyer who was happily married for 22 years, and Mrs. Hildagardeis Boswell, 37, a divorced law student who was unhappily married for four months. Both women, who are Baltimore Democrats and black, deny any Women's Lib connection and do not expect the bill to gain passage this year. So far, most of the other legislators are treating the bill as a joke (typical crack: "I'd vote for it, but my wife won't let me"). But the two women have already received...
Though the urge to survive cannot be quenched, it seems to bring out the worst in both of them. Boesman is a vicious brute who smashes at his own fate by punching Lena, a nagging termagant who could drive a much stronger man to despair. They tell each other off, but tell the audience very little, except for long, rambling, undramatized remembrances of their atrophied past...
Unfortunately, Boesman and Lena is one of those accounts of unlimited woe that try the playgoer's patience. Boesman (James Earl Jones) and Lena (Ruby Dee) are pitiable South African Coloreds whom God and man have forsaken, and whose only shelter is some abandoned junk on the banks of a muddy river basin. Nature wheels around them like an impatient vulture, and death is the only consolation prize that their life has to offer...
...taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest; 2) the material is patently offensive because it affronts contemporary community standards; and 3) the material is "utterly" without redeeming social value. To what extent do worthy parts redeem the whole? In Curious the explicit sexual adventures of the films heroine, Lena, are only part of her activities; much of the movie is devoted to her episodic exploration of violence, indifference and social inequality in her society...
...richest and meanest man in Yonkers, N.Y., Walter Matthau is doing Walter Matthau as he used to be in B pictures, moving through the production like a man with a strong distaste for all around him. As for the lead, Barbra Streisand oscillates between postures: now Mae West, now Lena Horne, now brassily elegant, now flying her Yiddishkeit...