Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Conquering cinemaspace is getting to be old hat for Christopher Reeve. Hanging his cape in the telephone booth temporarily between Superman and the upcoming Superman II, Reeve does it again as an ordinary playwright in a romantic saga called Somewhere in Time...
Vacationing at an old hostelry, played superbly in the film by the Grand Hotel on Michigan's famed Mackinac Island, the playwright falls for a 1912 portrait. Before you can say Clark Kent-poof-he goes back 67 years in time to see if he has the chance of a ghost with the subject, played by Jane Seymour...
Good as he is at time warps, the playwright is unfamiliar with straight razors. That explains the patches of tissue on Reeve's puss in the picture...
...prone to enthusiasm about modernized Shakespeare, mainly because it tends to serve gimmick-happy directors without serving the playwright; such was the case with several of the American Shakespeare Theatre's early efforts. But it is possible to throw fresh light on the text through modern-dress productions, as Michael Kahn did here with his Love's Labour's Lost in 1968. Freedman's Caesar takes numerous risks, and for the most part succeeds surprisingly well...
...house of literature is in its usual state of disrepair. Poetry is depressed, the novel remains in the shadow of James, Joyce and Proust, and an aging Tennessee Williams is still the greatest living playwright. But wait: there is a light burning in the attic window. Biography is alive, well, and scribbling away, better than ever. The banners may not be waving in college English departments and the critics may not be cheering quite as much as they should, but we are now in a golden age of biography. Indeed, all but half a dozen of the greatest biographies...