Word: robert
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Consider: Bob (Robert Culp) and Carol (Natalie Wood) are young and rich and good looking and hip (?). They live in Southern California and one weekend, decide to go to an Esalen-esque sensitivity institute. There they discover love and humanity and liberation...
...writer-producer Tucker and writer-director Mazursky have stacked the cards against Bob and Carol. They do this by making Bob and Carol not so much liberated as pseudo-liberated. Bob and Carol think they are hip, but as the audience happily discovers, they are actually phonies and assholes. Robert Culp is a middle-aged Peter Fonda who wears beads only because he's rich enough to get away with it: Natalie Wood is one of those snotty rich girls who sends her children to progressive schools and works for McCarthy. Bob and Carol are, shall we say, effete impudent...
School committeeman Daniel J. Clinton also received a boost-an additional 140 votes-from the redistribution. Clinton, who ranks seventh with a total of 1766 votes, seems to be moving toward election, as do challenger Robert Moncrieff (fifth with 2112 votes) and incumbent Barbara Ackormann (sixth with 1826 votes...
Joseph Stein and Robert Russell, the authors of Take Me Along's book, have not shortchanged their musical of this sorrow. They have written a stunning, if not perfect, musical comedy book. As the script weaves gracefully around Bob Merrill's songs, the show remains wittily upbeat, all the while quietly asserting the downbeat aspects of the characters...
...been a complete victory for the director-the choreography and the orchestra. The musical has two production numbers-a picnic celebration in Act One and a liquor-induced dream sequence in Act Two. Both worked in the original production; neither do in this one. The musical staging devised by Robert Harlow and Joanne Ruskin is, in the first case, routine, and, in the second, self-indulgent...