Word: old
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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APPEARING FINALLY in the last scene, James Dolbeare makes a hilariously corny yet forthright Jim. Saddled with old-fashioned attempts at sensitivity and a gosh-gee-well vocabulary, he gives a winning performance as the simple, clear-minded alien visitor to this stifling, decaying planet...
...frequent blackouts for scene changes were too stark, too sudden, t.v.-like, often disturbing the sense of a flow of dream images. Finally, Williams' script calls for fiddle music at the beginning and end of the play, framing it in a Southern, story-telling manner but also providing an old-fashioned whine, a tug into the heart of this play and a sorrowful serenade at the finish. There is sometimes a brusqueness to this production that contrasts with the warmth and intimacy of the play...
About 20 minutes outside Gainesville, Fla., stands an old country cemetery...
...front of the room self-composed obituaries are displayed: "Alec Tilley died at the age of 87. He died of old age at his own home . . . Remembered for great playing in sports. Send flowers...
They see films like Annie and the Old One, in which a Navajo girl learns to accept-big word-her grandmother's dying...