Word: ronzio
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Along the way Tuggle takes a risk by surrounding Morris (Eastwood) with some of the most sentimentalized movie prisoners imaginable. There is an old-tuner called Doc (Roberts Blossom), who raises chrysanthemums and paints portraits, not to mention a literary librarian (Paul Benjamin) and a cuddly Italian (Frank Ronzio) with a pet mouse. Next to these lovable guys, an average Boy Scout troop would seem like a bunch of Bowery bums. The warden (Patrick McGoohan), of course, is a sadistic horror. He speaks in malevolent epigrams ("Some are never destined to leave Alcatraz - alive") and carries on what appears...
...long, group drunk. Drunkenness is a dimension of the play, one that changes with time, allows constant development of the characters and permits repetition and refinement of the themes. Frank McCarthy and Cathie Robinson as the middle-aged history professor George and his bitch wife Martha, and Al Ronzio and Lori Heineman as their young faculty-party acquaintances, Nick and Honey, work well under the requirements of this changing dimension. Much of the success of the Atma production of Virginia Woolf depends on the four actors' ability to alter their speech, motions, and emotions in the constantly changing context...
...couple, and that expose to both couples and to the audience, the real horrors of their childless marriage. Honey is a nervous dependent type, played a little affectedly by Miss Heineman; the process of subjugation has to work hardest on the strong, young-and-ambitious biology professor, Nick, Al Ronzio's handling of the problem of this difficult subjugation is confident, if at times momentarily ambiguous, and ultimately satisfying. As his position changes in the space of a few hours from that of a polite and disengaged faculty whiz-kid to George's known cuckolder and Martha's "houseboy...
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