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MUCH WORSE, indeed Sellars' biggest blunder, is another combination of roles, this one of Don Pedro and Don John. Admittedly, these characters are some of Shakespeare's more faceless, Don John in particular being the classic villain-without-a-motive. That doesn't excuse the complete merging of the two, however, into an unplayable role called "the Prince" which Brian McCue understandably can make nothing...
...This particular actor-saving ploy on Sellars' part costs him an entire half of the play's plot. No one in the audience who has not read Much Ado About Nothing beforehand can make sense of the main romantic plot of Claudio (Paul Redford) and Hero (Grace Shohet) without the separate Dons...
...colleagues had great difficulty getting at the root causes of such behavior. Says Straus: "The reasons are mixed-psychological, sociological, situational." The head of the household, for example, may feel under particular stress because he has been out of work too long. Violence may also be an echo of the past. Explains Straus: "When Mommy gives her two-year-old a slap for putting something dirty in his mouth, he is learning from infancy that those who love you hit you." Another trigger may be war or inflation. Says Gelles gloomily: "If heating goes up to a buck a gallon...
...sprang full-formed from the head of the Revolution. Moscow, before 1917, was one of the chief condensers of advanced cultural ideas-thanks not only to the artists themselves, but to bourgeois Maecenases like Sergei Shchukin and Ivan Morosov, whose enthusiasm for modern French art (Gauguin, Matisse, Picasso, in particular) is still evident in the great public collections of Moscow and Leningrad. There was a steady traffic of ideas, paintings and of the artists themselves between Russia, France and Italy...
Were she not an unquestioned star, one would suspect The Main Event of being a vanity production-the sort of thing aging screen queens sometimes get their wealthy admirers to buy for them so that the camera may once again be permitted to adore them. In particular, this star seems to labor under the delusion that it is not so much her face as her bottom that is her fortune-so many low angles of it upturned and bouncing about are featured. It's not a bad bottom, but you can't really make a movie...