Word: ophelia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...somehow contrived to make is worse. Olde English folk songs ("God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" etc.) are piped over the loudspeaker after every blackout, and stage movement is held to a static minimum. Unfortunately, radiant Rosemary Harris as the dowdy, embittered Queen looks even better than she did as Ophelia two year ago; while cherubic and smooth-skinned Bruce Scott, late of the Merv Griffin Show, fails to convince anybody that he's Prince John, who, as the text repeatedly states, is the victim of massive acne. As for the miscast Mr. Preston, we are reminded with his every movement...
...still smaller chest and her hair cropped as short as a boy's, she managed to convey a blossoming femininity, the seedling woman of passion and perception. She was a sentimental strumpet in I Am a Camera, a queen in Victoria Regina, a madwoman as Hamlet's Ophelia. Her secret is not true versatility-there is never any question that behind the makeup it is Julie Harris. Audiences flock to her performances precisely because she can mimic no one but herself; she simply takes on each challenging role and wraps it around her like soft mink. Judging from...
...they find the beau's corpse in the bathtub, the landlord's under the living-room couch, and the girl herself, nearly cataonic, under their bed. This is pretty febrile stuff, but the mood Polanski creates--with dark chaotic rooms, dripping water, buzzing flies, and the girl's own Ophelia-like singing compels you to take the film seriously...
...ADDAMS FAMILY (ABC, 8:30-9 p.m.). Part I of "Morticia's Romance," in which Carolyn Jones will play both herself as a 22-year-old and a character called Ophelia Frump. Margaret Hamilton, Oz's Wicked Witch, guest-stars...
This is unpromising in summation and wholly unreadable in execution. The author's method is to teeter on the window ledge of actuality for a few sentences at the beginning of each chapter and then jump into vagueness, singing like Ophelia...