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There were some very strong voices in the cast and at their best they not only sung well but captured the familiar inflections of the original cast. Dorothy (Karen Preston), the Tin Man (Scott Miles), the Scarecrow (A1 Abrams), and the Cowardly Lion (Paul Hewitt) all played double parts--Miles played Jack Haley playing the Tin Man, Preston played Garland playing Dorothy, and so on. The Wicked Witch (Gwen Mason) and the Gatekeeper of the Emerald City (Andy Sutter) splendidly overplayed in the grand tradition. Toto was something of a problem; he was necessary at certain points in the plot...
Moriarty is among a handful of young stars who dominate the recent spate of "masculine mystique" movies - Al Pacino (Serpico, Scarecrow), Robert De Niro (Bang the Drum, Mean Streets), Harvey Keitel (Mean Streets), Martin Sheen (Badlands). They are nei ther heroic nor antiheroic leading men but character actors. The star quality is there, but deliberately subject to the stage-oriented discipline of craftsman ship and technique. Moriarty is not really a "natural talent," observes Donald Schoenbaum, managing director of Minneapolis' Tyrone Guthrie Theater, where Moriarty spent four seasons in repertory. "His talent is as much intellectual...
...Scarecrow. The Easy Rider of 1973, two down-and-outers working their way east toward money and destruction in an inversion of the Westward push myth with the rainbow pot of glory at the end. The movie not only lacks coherent narrative, it lacks any form at all. Rather, for whatever success it may have trained its sights upon, the film seems to depend heavily on audience gullibility vis a vis "art at the movies" built up by the new media hypes...
...Scarecrow. The Easy Rider of 1973, two down-and-outers working their way east toward money and destruction in an inversion of the Westward push myth with the rainbow pot of glory at the end. The movie not only lacks coherent narrative, it lacks any form at all. Rather, for whatever success it may have trained its sights upon, the film seems to depend heavily on audience gullibility vis a vis "art at the movies" built up by the new media hypes. Ten from VYour Show of Shows. A sampling of the 160 90 minute weekly shows directed and produced...
...Scarecrow. The Easy Rider of 1973, two down-and-outers working their way east toward money and destruction in an inversion of the Westward push myth with the rainbow pot of glory at the end. The movie not only lacks coherent narrative, it lacks any form at all. Rather, for whatever success it may have trained its sights upon, the film seems to depend heavily on audience gullibility vis a vis "art at the movies" built up by the new media hypes. Sleuth. Anthony Shaffer's Tony Award-winner directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, in his own words "the oldest...