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In large measure the failure of the spring season at the Loeb, which reportedly set record lows on ticket sales, results from the choice of plays. Buechner's Danton's Death proved far too rhetorical, and a play with a passive protagonist must inevitably drag. James A. Culpepper's Phyllis...
Mr. Coles is excellently qualified to judge this movie's accuracy, and I accept his judgment. Clearly The Cool World is more worthwhile than I thought it was. My point about Shirley Clarke's imagination is that the way she presented her story led me to distrust its accuracy: She...
The prevailing sound of the evening is whiny, rhetorical self-pity, though ten minutes before the final curtain Bea Richards pierces the cloudy monotony with a stormburst of tears and sun shafts of helpless laughter. But by then it is too late for the playgoer to be greatly cheered by...
Daring this literary brinksmanship, Mailer catches more than a glimpse of the abyss below. "How poor to go to death with no more than the notes of good intention," he wrote six years ago, in Advertisements. Every scene is almost over the edge, compressed with the tension of a man...
"I guess it was 1961 or 1962," monotoned Marlon Brando, 40, "when all of a sudden I was awakened by the girl I was with. Then I saw Anna." Anna, of course, was Actress Anna Kashfi, 30, his recently divorced wife, and she had broken into his house. "She started...