Word: othellos
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...highly varied passions. He loves to read Wallace Stevens and Thomas Hardy. He loves hearing Heifetz play Sibelius' D-minor Violin Concerto. He grew up listening to Sir John Gielgud recite Shakespeare on brittle 78-r.p.m. records and in the '40s saw Paul Robeson's towering Othello. He has a passion for all these pleasures-and sports as well...
...John Colicos. But Kerr's Leontes is the one we've been waiting for. The part makes for-midable demands on any player, but merits every bit of effort required. Bernard Shaw once wrote, in a letter to the actress Ellen Terry, "Leontes is a magnificent part, worth fifty Othellos (Shakespear knew nothing about jealousy when he wrote Othello), as modern as Ibsen, and full of wonderful music." The slur on Othello was poppycock, but Shaw was otherwise right on the mark...
Whatever the cause, things happen fast in this play; there is not time for leisurely exploration of motivations and developments--such as we get in Othello. So the onset of jealousy here is rather sudden, yet a fine player like Kerr can make it work. It must be remembered that The Winter's Tale is a tale, that Shakespeare was here, as in the other three late romances, presenting a myth, where there is more emphasis on the parade of incidents and their implications than on depth of character. If the performers can round out their roles, so much...
Having seen a Leontes who combines the passionate jealousy of Othello with the impetuous tyranny of Macbeth, we meet him again as a reformed, peaceful hero who has done penance for 16 years. And he is a hero, despite all his early evildoing. As the Luke gospel says: "Joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth more than over ninety and nine just persons which need no repentance." When Leontes reappears, his blond hair now whitened. Kerr makes him immediately sympathetic and speaks beautifully and movingly. When the "statue" moves to greet him (and Shakespeare tells...
Simplot will not say how many of those defaulted contracts were his; he claims not to keep close track of numbers. But he and a fellow potato titan, P.J. Taggeras of Othello, Wash., are believed to own all of them. The Mercantile Exchange has already begun moving against the clearinghouses used by the spudmen. Exchange President Richard Levine said the houses would be liable for the cost of the potatoes and required to pay fines for not abiding by the default rules of the exchange. Presumably, the firms will try to get the money from their defaulting clients...