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...latest sofa cutter is the distinguished, able and antic English theater director, Peter Brook. Having directed King Lear as a play, Brook has turned it into a film with the same star, Paul Scofield. The picture is never great and not always good...
...impersonal, but not magnanimous: it makes the actor part of the scenery. Onstage, the actor is at the incandescent center of the action. He incarnates the flame of truth and beauty invested in him by the playwright to be passed on to the audience. Thus one can say that Scofield is perfectly all right as Lear, that MacGowran is a good Fool and that Irene Worth is especially good as Goneril, the oldest and ugliest daughter. Then, too, Alan Webb sensitively portrays the Duke of Gloucester, whose eyes are gouged out with stomach-churning realism. But the instantaneous afterthought...
...Penn has been alternately shrewd and loco with Little Big Man, but mainly he has been plumb lucky. In the book, Crabb complains about western movies that show Indians played by Caucasians "with 5 o'clock shadows and lumpy arms." Perversely, Penn sought Sir Laurence Olivier and Paul Scofield for the chieftain's role. When they refused, he awarded the part to Richard Boone, who resigned shortly before filming. It was only then that Penn chose a hereditary leader of Canada's Salish tribe, Chief George, to play the old man. It was a momentous decision...
Future generations will undoubtedly look back on the '50s, '60s and emerging 70s as a golden age of British acting. The mature actors-Olivier, Scofield, Gielgud, Richardson and Redgrave -ripened from talent to mastery to greatness. Like dynastic sires, they have inspired an exciting group of young successors-Albert Finney, Nicol Williamson, Ian McClellan, Tom Courtenay -actors less attuned to the niceties of craft, but ablaze with Elizabethan intensity. In Home, the U.S. debut of an extremely evocative new British playwright, David Storey, there is an opportunity to view a feat of artistry by Richardson and Gielgud that...
...playwright would think: Who is this cocky girl mucking up our masterpiece that we've been working on for years?" But 18 months, two companies, and more than 100 roles later, she finally arrived on the West End, playing a show-stopping cameo in Expresso Bongo with Paul Scofield...