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...playwright himself believes that this lack of clarity is essential to the play’s purpose, so much so that he refused the original director’s request to add several lines to clarify Stanley’s situation. According to the program, the ART’s artistic directors feel that this ambiguity makes the play more accessible, leaving it open to a variety of psychological, political or even religious interpretations. While this may be true once the audience leaves the theater, it makes the experience of watching The Birthday Party frustrating as one tries to make...
RECOVERING. NEIL SIMON, 76, playwright and screenwriter, whose credits include Brighton Beach Memoirs and The Odd Couple; from a kidney transplant; in New York City. His publicist, Bill Evans, donated the kidney...
...note alone manages to mention meetings with Charlie Chaplin, Igor Stravinsky and Noël Coward. Editor Richard Mangan has mostly concentrated on the correspondents with whom Gielgud was intimate - including his mother, his onetime lover Paul Anstee, the actress Irene Worth, photographer and designer Cecil Beaton and the playwright Hugh Wheeler. The early part of the volume is dominated by correspondence to his mother (the only family member who figures prominently), and is full of excited career talk as he achieves success. Then comes the romance with Anstee - tarnished by Anstee's jealousy and Gielgud's insistence that...
...more than just having a store that sells vintage and new; the two really inform each other," says Dana Foley, a former playwright who designs the Foley line for Foley & Corinna, while her partner, Anna Corinna, scours the globe for vintage pieces. "Seeing girls pick out vintage, you get a feel for the trends," Foley observes. "Two years ago, girls were buying ripped Victorian lace, and the next season you were seeing it on the runway...
Most Ludicrously Overrated Performance: Diane Keaton, nominated for Best Actress, really is a gifted performer, which makes her misinterpretation of her character in Something’s Gotta Give all the more surprising and insulting. Playing an intelligent and successful 50-something playwright, Keaton’s Erica Barry falls for Jack Nicholson’s dirty old music agent like it’s 1964 and he’s a Beatle. They get it on, then he freaks out and dumps her. Are general filmgoers, much less the movie’s middle-aged target audience, really supposed...