Word: peters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Peter Yates, the British director who began filming John & Mary in Manhattan last week, calls it a "contemporary love story." It begins where romantic movies used to end?with the snuggling in the percales. After that, the script lightly flicks such switched-on subjects as astrology, hippies, fags, the Pill, Jean-Luc Godard's Weekend, May-September adultery, cinéma vérité film makers and, just for laughs, itself. From time to time, for example, it underlines the dialogue with subtitles...
Together, Mia and Dustin represent a coincidence of other myths: the airborne colleen and the earthbound Jew, Peter Pan and Peter Schlemiel, the miserable winner and the happy loser. Like most myths, they contain an indissoluble grain of truth. Mia Farrow has been cowering from show-business success like a cornered rabbit. Hoffman has been swimming backward in it like a lobster. To Mia, life is colored with pastels and studded with magic stones; to Hoffman, it is a black-and-white documentary. She can skip down Manhattan's Third Avenue without creating a ripple. When Hoffman is recognized...
...their force in a medium that emphasizes sight over sound. Putting a Shakespeare film on television is doubly troublesome, for the small screen reduces the principals to tiny figures who are all but lost in panoramic scenes. Despite the difficulties, England's Royal Shakespeare Company, under Director Peter Hall, has turned A Midsummer Night's Dream into a richly textured color film that comes across as TV at its best. Millions of Americans will have a chance to view it on CBS next Sunday (Feb. 9, 9-11:15 p.m., E.S.T...
...hour play. The Royal Shakespeare Company, which Hall helped turn into Britain's most distinguished repertory company, may eventually give CBS as many as 20 plays for U.S. television and for later release as feature films. At present, Actor Paul Scofield (A Man for All Seasons) and Director Peter Brook (Marat/Sade, The Visit) are working together on an austere, black-and-white film of King Lear. On Sunday night alone, Hall estimates, the TV audience for A Midsummer Night's Dream will be large enough to fill the 1,426-seat playhouse at Stratford for 30 years...
...very next day, the show's producer and authors started to rewrite the show, practically from scratch. Within a week, the director, Peter Glenville, had been replaced (by Joe Layton). Within a month, a whole new first act was on stage. This is no small job, considering the complexities of putting together a Broadway musical...