Word: psycho
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Norman Bates is back. It is 22 years since the friendly motelkeeper played by Anthony Perkins, 50, was led away to a California mental institution after his classic bathroom murder of Janet Leigh, 55, in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. Middle-aged and pronounced cured, Norman has returned to town and wants to revamp his sagging hostelry. Directed by Richard Franklin, 34, who worked with Hitchcock as a student, Psycho II picks up the few surviving characters from the master's original. Vera Miles, 51, returns as Leigh's sister, "and Mom is definitely six feet under...
...WORST VICTIM of this national psycho-saga has been the fan. Angell, who through his writing has established himself as the spectator's spokesman, eloquently mourns the major fallout from the contract and compensation wars." ...(T)he new salaries have vastly increased the distance between the players and the fans." Destroyed was the admittedly silly belief that the guy in the bleachers could be the guy in the bullpen. "The players are [now] businessmen too--businessmen with a vengeance, it seems--and the space between the fan and the player is the same light years span that divides the television...
Agnes of God, a new work by John Pielmeier, now playing for two weeks in Boston before relocating to Broadway, requires a fashionmonger's scrutiny. As a psycho-drama of the good old school, this three-person play is unmistakably out-of-date. But double-breasted jackets with padded shoulders, which went out decisively after the '40s, are currently enjoying a big vogue in the very haut-est of designer salons. So, perhaps, Agnes of God might take the theater world by storm and herald the revival of the psychodrama as a popular form...
...mark. Its full throated advocacy of faith and its lack of respect for ambiguity doom it to failure as a drama of ideas. The verdict of the fashionmonger on Agnes of God as a potential trend-setter should be negative. There may yet be life in the psycho-drama form, but it wants a Prince Charming, not this unevenly constructed work, to make it awaken...
...Instead of learning from his experiences, or gaining social awareness, Danclo remains basically the dimwit we met a long, long two hours ago, pursuing whatever brunette happen to be with him (we never see how he meets them) and retaining true love--for no earthly for the psycho nympho weren't those days crazy? Wild kids social upheaval...