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Mazursky's modern Prospero is Phillip Dimitrious (John Cassavetes), a successful Manhattan architect careering toward a nervous breakdown. He loves his actress wife (Gena Rowlands) but is tired of her. He loves his 14-year-old daughter (a lovely duckling named Molly Ringwald) without quite understanding his paternal possessiveness of her. His rage expresses itself in sudden lightning storms that streak the Manhattan skies and act as the mysterious percussion to the mad music inside his head. Off he goes to Greece, where he finds an earthbound Ariel (the sweetly sensible Susan Sarandon), and finally to his dream isle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Comic's Demons | 8/16/1982 | See Source »

...terribly true. What they fail to say is that unlike Caliban, Bernard is a monster of sly and surpassing charm, and, like Prospero, his magic wand is the English tongue. He ends a characteristic diatribe on the erosion of the English class structure with the observation that "soon there'll be more photographers than people to be photographed." On the effects of alimony, he reflects bitterly: "Idle men produced an age of elegance. Idle women merely multiply hairdressers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Dire Octopus | 2/1/1982 | See Source »

...times, it seems as if Michael Bennett, the show's sorcerer, has borrowed Prospero's wand. He conjures up scenes of potent magic that prove as evanescent as dreams. What is palpably dazzling merges imperceptibly with razzle-dazzle. The sheer richness of the surrounding technique and texture blanches the text. Robin Wagner's scenic design consists of stark metal, light-crammed towers that move and revolve to form a kaleidoscope of geometric patterns. Costumer Theoni V. Aldredge must have purchased her swatches from a rainbow merchant to fashion the slinky, sequined gowns, and Tharon Musser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Sorcerer of Shubert Alley | 1/4/1982 | See Source »

...Prospero is a sage and a master of magic. Julia makes him a little bit of a world-weary sideshow carny barker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Isle of Blight | 7/20/1981 | See Source »

What with the actor's Hispanic inflections, the babel of voices around him and a hot samba, Prospero sometimes seems to be presiding over a banana republic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Isle of Blight | 7/20/1981 | See Source »

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