Word: romeos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hardly surprising that so many playwrights and actors have also looked to him for inspiration. John Guare and Mel Shapiro found that the Two Gentlemen of Verona were still around in 1971, only they happened to be a black and Puerto Rican, just as West Side Story had flushed Romeo and Juliet out of Manhattan slums a decade earlier. Shakespeare's influence barely surfaces until the end of West Side Story, when it takes the form of a tragic denoument that is a cloying mistake. But Guare and Shapiro's adaptation gamely borrows both language and plot from its original...
...long-haired college student who commutes to school in a flaming red Alfa Romeo, and to the highway patrol it seems I am begging for a speeding ticket. Without my Fuzzbuster, I would be at their mercy. When police radar is no longer accepted as automatic proof of guilt in traffic court, I will gladly put my radar detector away...
While the voices of the lovers are richly harmonious, their acting styles are not precisely attuned. Kahn, a proficient comedienne, caricatures herself at times. She lacks the vernal innocence intrinsic to the role. Bostwick, on the other hand, could be playing a slightly baffled Romeo, which happens to be just right for this part. Rita Moreno is an animated delight as the amorous prey of a slickly narcissistic cad (Laurence Guittard). and George Rose lends his customary authoritative presence to the role of the autocratic shop owner with a heart of fudge. As for Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock, they...
...part film will fill three hours of prime time on NBC on both Palm Sunday and Easter,* and it is well worth viewing. Director Zeffirelli, an Italian and a Roman Catholic, has brought to the project a rare combination of religious sensitivity and film expertise (Romeo and Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew). Novelist Anthony Burgess has written an intelligent script, and the notable cast includes Anne Bancroft (Mary Magdalene), James Earl Jones (Balthasar), Stacy Keach (Barabbas), James Mason (Joseph of Arimathaea), Laurence Olivier (Nicodemus), Christopher Plummer (Herod Antipas), Ralph Richardson (Simeon), Rod Steiger (Pontius Pilate) and Peter Ustinov (Herod...
...Romeo of the television screen has gone legit. Henry Winkler, a.k.a. "the Fonz" on ABC's Happy Days, will play Juliet's lover on CBS's March 20 special Henry Winkler Meets William Shakespeare. Fonzie also narrates the show and even played a major role in the programming. Because the special is meant for young people, Winkler vetoed including Falstaff' s drinking scene, arguing that "alcoholism is even a bigger problem than drugs among the kids...