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...convey all this is a formidable, albeit irresistible, challenge for an actress. Two of the current attempts are strikingly successful. Eileen Atkins turns Vivat, Bolt's ponderous high school history pageant, into exciting drama, with an Elizabeth of coruscating wit and feline sensuality. Glenda Jackson, in Elizabeth R, is more subtle, but equally brilliant, with an astonishing ability to convey mood and nuance and to switch from a purr to a roar. "We are," Elizabeth proudly and accurately proclaimed, "of the nature of the lion...
...BULL Gets the Matador Once in a Lifetime--a great title for a play, don't you think? Suggestions of living drama set under some Iberian sun, grace and artistry, pageant and danger, a la Hemingway. When the expected-unexpected happens, the chance all the crowds really come for: the bull gets the matador and the arena roars...
...insist on seeing "the new Neil Simon" or nothing is to enlist in New York's legion of the theatrically self-deprived. In reality, Broadway is a pageant with something to beguile every eye. The latest treat is Vivat! Vivat Regina!, a vivid tapestry of passion, blood, majesty and death...
...genre into four cavorters: Zeppo, once charitably labeled the Good Looking One; Harpo, Rumpelstiltskin with mild satyriasis; Chico, the Italian Defamation League; and the great, nay immoral Groucho. Under his pun-fulfilled guidance the boys carom delightfully from the primitive surrealism of The Cocoanuts on beyond that neglected antiwar pageant Duck Soup, to the classic double bill, A Day At The Races and A Night At The Opera...
Barbie's rival Dawn stars this year in a beauty pageant-a mini-Miss America contest complete with bathing suits, evening dresses, a dinner-jacketed escort doll named Gary and a jeweled scepter all on a pink plastic stage. "It is a part of Americana," explains Jack Jones, a spokesman for Topper Toys, which manufactures the pageant. "We are constantly seeing things that are based on beauty and talent, and the child wants to be a part...