Word: miscasting
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...almost entirely a lengthy parade of failures. The Festival's only previous involvement with the play, twelve years ago, made the dreadful mistake of importing Robert Ryan and Katherine Hepburn from Hollywood for the title roles. With all the good intentions in the world, these two players were hopelessly miscast in parts that require highly musical performers. This summer, Kahn has done better with his pair of lovers, but not well enough...
...fact, he is. Jodorowsky, whose first feature film, El Topo, has recently emerged from underground status to become an aboveground cult, smiles in happy bemusement as the man from Allen Klein's (Beatles' manager and El Topo' distributor) summarily introduces the Chilean director to a miscast sampling of the Boston press...
...choreography asks of her decently enough, and since that never seems to permit her to be half as exciting as she can be I think she should ask for more. Rounding out the trio is Phyllis Newman, a nice enough lady and a good enough trouper, but also somewhat miscast in this show full of ingenues. As for the men, well, the three are smooth-shaven and as enthusiastic as all hell, but so interchangeable that none is really outstanding...
...Carl Lerner) have improved considerably. His talent with actors seems now beyond contention, and under his guidance Jane Fonda gives her best performance to date. A couple of years ago, in They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, she brought power to a part in which she was basically miscast. In Klute she is profoundly and perfectly Bree: she makes all the right choices, from the mechanics of her walk and her voice inflection to the penetration of the girl's raging psyche. It is a rare performance...
...women haloed by immense hats and men elegantly attired merely for a saunter through the palm court, is flawlessly but tediously recreated. Still, there is no substance beneath the moving images. Adolescent Bjorn Andresen is properly androgenous but no more mysterious than a lump of sugar. Dirk Bogarde is miscast and misdirected-all hurt looks and empty cackle. The prize for most voluble player must, however, go to Mark Burns as the musician's friend. Invented for the film, he shrieks such Viscontian art-and-life lines as "Do you know what lies at the bottom of the mainstream...