Word: peters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like most of Peter Fonda's fantasies, it should have faded with the morning. For Fonda is a loser by every Hollywood definition. He is not only known as Henry's son but as Jane's brother. At 20, he was admittedly "paranoic"; at 24, he escaped the Army when his draft board found him too unstable for military service. His vanilla screen-acting style was best expressed in such films as Tammy and the Doctor. Offscreen, Fonda began a new vocation-as an alcoholic who ended at least one motorcycle ride in a Hollywood hospital. When...
...like I mean" Method actor. He had once announced to Fonda that "the first movie I make will have to win at Cannes." But his appearances in films belied the boast. The mad stare, the simian stance could have been reproduced, everyone thought, by a dozen actors. Everyone but Peter Fonda. He persuaded Terry Southern (Dr. Strangelove) to collaborate on the Easy Rider script, and talked American International Pictures, creators of the beach and motorcycle placebos, into producing a film starring nobodies and directed by a weirdo. When A.I.P. refused to put up enough money to launch the project, Fonda...
...Under Peter Hall's restrained direction, Bloom and Steiger prove adept as stiff-upper-lip types. They are given fervent support by Geeson and by members of the Royal Shakespeare Company. But no troupe could be expert enough to elevate 3 Into 2 from its confined and pallid plot...
...Peter Arnott's staging of Lysistrata may not be the best university theatre I've seen in four years here. But I honestly can't remember anything better. It puts it all together; a simple, but visually pleasing and extraordinary functional set that, combined with Arnott's precise blocking, makes optimum use not only of the arena but of the entire theatre; a truly superior use of lighting; ingenious tinkering with the script; and acting that ranges from good to superb...
ALSO IN A Stetson was Peter Lempert as the Spartan Herald. No doubt his comic ability was aided by a ludicruous eighteen-inch (one presumes, fake) erection, but he would have cut a convincingly ridiculous figure anyway. Cinesias, as a deprived husband, must be a pathetic combination of exasperation, desperation, fury, and, of course, horny as hell. John Pieters does a very convincing job; he brought back those golden high-school days of drive-in movies and cramps in the groin. And after the reconciliation, with Myrrhina chasing him, he gives a similarly convincing impression of exhaustion. Judith Wells' Myrrhina...