Word: moor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Among other black saints: a 4th century Ethiopian bishop named Moses; Benedict the Moor, a 16th century Franciscan whose par ents were African slaves; and the Dominican lay brother Martin de Porres (1569-1639), a Peruvian mulatto canonized...
...jealous Moor opens the armoire. He discovers the enclosed lover, who emerges and shoves Othello, first on film, then live, across the gap and onto the other screen. The husband returning from the business trip now finds Othello in his wife's armoire. Farce to be sure, but so neatly coordinated that its humor is as artful as it is foolish...
...coal-black grease paint. He tightened the spring in his stride, explaining, "Othello should walk like a soft black panther." He practiced the curiously accented, oddly stressed speech that evoked the way some Jamaicans and Africans gush English, managing thereby to convey the way the Moor spoke Italian...
Olivier saw Othello as a man not blind to lago's ambitions but only to his stratagems, realizing them too late. Interpretation, however, was only the door to his triumph, which reached its height in the Moor's eruption of jealousy and murderous violence. Said the Financial Times's Alan Dent: "He is like a lion caught in a cruel trap." In the Daily Mail, the often appreciation-proof Bernard Levin said that "Sir Laurence's Othello is larger than life, bloodier than death, more piteous than pity...
Wells the director always has one trump card to play in his films: Welles the actor. His Moor is in the tradition of his great roles, the Charles Kanes and the Harry Limes. His best scene is his appearance before the Doge of Venice, in which he defends his courtship of Desdemona...