Word: othello
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...basis of Welles' penetrating analysis of his own work in his recent movie, Filming Othello (which will not have a commercial release in this country), Petric has recommended to the Norton Lecture Committee that Welles be asked to deliver this prestigious lecture series in 1980. Welles, says Petric, will accept if asked. At present, Petric is preparing a screening of Filming Othello for the Norton Committee. Their invitation, he feels, will not only acknowledge Welles' position in cinema, but will give formal recognition of film as an area deserving of academic attention...
...Jill Clayburgh has the same perverse delight in failure, and, without once batting her intense blue eyes, she will reel off a list of her own disasters long enough to paper the Taj Mahal. There was the time she played Desdemona in Los Angeles and audiences almost cheered when Othello smothered her. Then there was the opening night of Tom Stoppard's Jumpers in Washington, D.C.: she opened a door and it crashed down...
...devoted himself to making money for his children and grandchildren (those paychecks from the National Theatre were piddling sums). Olivier's past accomplishments in drama are legendary. Many people say his true greatness was in the theater, but Olivier has rendered many memorable film performances: Hamlet, Henry, Richard, Othello, Astrov, Strindberg's Captain, and to a lesser, though often equally delightful extent, Heathcliff, Archie Rice in The Entertainer, Graham Weir in Term of Trial and Andrew Wyke in Sleuth. Perhaps, many hope, he will return to the stage someday, if not to undertake a more mature Lear...
...Japanese board game Go reached the U.S. as a fad a few years ago and now has developed its own cadre of players, many of them convinced that it is far more profound than chess. Another board-and-counter game, Othello, sells well enough to indicate that its termites are nesting. Master Mind, a code-breaking game devised by an Israeli cryptanalyst, has its own fanatics. From Rumanian Jews in Israel comes a kind of gin rummy played with tiles, variously called Rummi-brick and Rummikub; one manufacturer in Korea has picked up the game and expects to ship...
...gets around to shedding light on that problem. It doesn't seem likely that a one-man show could ever provide the vehicle for such an investigation, but it will be nice when American theater can afford to probe further under the skin of a man like Robeson.ROBESON as Othello...