Word: max
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Epstein's ability to draw humor from the play even as he is interpreting it in an essentially solemn way. We expect the rustics and their "Pyramus and Thisbe" to be a comic staple, and certainly John Bottoms's eponymous, stage-struck Bottom, Jeremy Geidt's paternal, befuddled Quince, Max Wright's scallion-chomping Flute and their cohorts dig up laughs you'd only guessed at, reading the play. But the young lovers, too, keep their scenes from bogging down into indistinguishable, interchangeable laments: Sloan's strong-willed and-armed Helena gets a hapless Demetrius into a half-nelson...
...artist, deft and softspoken, and an actor's director as well. Arkin comes closer than ever before to breaking through the reserve that sometimes straitjackets his unquestionable comic technique. Judy Graubart is winning as his realistic girlfriend. The guys at the lab- Austin Pendleton, William Finley, Wallace Shawn, Max Wright and Jayant-manage to satirize every imaginable form of intellectual hubris. Their cause is a worthy one, and so is their director's debut...
DIED. Oskar Kokoschka, 93, Austrian-born expressionist; in Villeneuve, Switzerland. In his 20s the fiery, eccentric Kokoschka painted some of the great portraits of the century, which explored the recesses of the psyche, even as his compatriot Freud was probing it. With Kirchner, Nolde and Max Beckmann, among others, he was a founder of the style of radical figurative art known as German expressionism. After World War I he turned to bright cityscapes, and during his last years in Switzerland, to Alpine landscapes...
...Anne Clarke makes a vapidly cruel Regan but they remain one-dimensional. James Bundy plays Kent with remarkable sincerity but his brawl with Oswald (a surprisingly meaty role in the hands of David Prum) sinks to absurdity. Mathew Horsman and Judah Mandlebaum labor with Albany and Cornwall and Max Cantor skates onstage intermittently as the court's errand...
...show is taped in its entirety, and if nothing goes wrong, the tape is simply replayed at 7. Tonight's broadcast was good, but Max Robinson, who is subbing for Reynolds in Washington tonight, says that he misread his opening. Though nobody else had noticed, he forgot to say the word "near," as in "the framework of a plan to free the hostages is in place or near at hand." The mistake is not very important, but Robinson nonetheless goes live for the first few seconds of the third show to rectify the error...