Word: moli
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Denying complaints that his government is spending too little on cultural affairs, Pompidou answered a newsman who urged him to be "a prince who loves the arts" with a paraphrased riposte from Molière's Tartuffe: "I am a prince who hates deceit...
...season has been jolted into excitement by two savage and moving comedies, brilliantly played and directed. The authors: Molière and Jarry...
Bear Baited. The new production ot Georges Dandin has been both praised and hated for an approach that "makes a Marxist out of Molière." The revolution comes in the inner citadel of the French classical tradition, the 17th century jewel box of Richelieu's theater at the Comédie-Française itself, where Molière played the lead before Louis XIV in 1668. Georges Dandin is an early farce, today often left to the schoolroom, about a rich peasant who has married above himself, is cuckolded by his wife and humiliated by her pretentious...
McCowen's philanthropist is a companion to Molière's misanthrope. Just as his philology leads him to like all words, regardless of meaning, his philanthropy leads him to like all people, regardless of individuality. In McCowen's characterization, the eager grin fades into a rictus of terror that others may not like him; the mildness is a mask for inadequacy. He is so nice that it hurts-himself and everyone around...
There the discipline proved as rigid as the convent's, with classical presentations of Racine, Corneille and Molière. But Geneviève could never quite adhere to any tradition. Two months before graduation, she was offered a part in a professional production of The Barber of Seville. She took a leap without a net. "A diploma can't get you work in the theater," she decided. "But a part can." It did. She took parts with a repertory company and caromed around Europe. In Paris, Director Alain Resnais was looking for a young girl...