Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dual role of son and narrator, Hal Holbrook makes his transitions with unobtrusive ease and is touching and vulnerable in his desire to receive the blessing of love from his father's untender hand. A play that wears its heart on its sleeve and small muscle in its script has been given whatever discipline, order and form it has by Alan Schneider, currently the busiest and most versatile director both off-Broadway and on. Whether he groups his actors with a painter's eye or makes a scene spin like a boy's top, his direction...
...another occasion, the censors censored a skit on censoring. In that playlet, Comedienne Elaine May and Tommy, portraying a pair of ridiculous bluenose censors, decide that they must substitute the word "arm" for "breast" in a script. "But won't that sound funny?" asks Tommy. "My heart beats wildly in my arm whenever you are near." Other routines that were cut were less innocuous. Such as the one in which Dickie says: "They have a fine ballet in Moscow." "Bolshoi," says Tommy. "No, no, Tommy, it really is a good ballet." That was touchy enough, but what really sent...
Bouvier's performance was only slightly less animated than the portrait of herself that hung over the mantel. And Adapter Capote, who is now writing an original play for his friend Lee, apparently needs a change in muse as well as Duse; the melodramatic script was scarcely the sort of thing he does best. Hanley's Flesh and Blood is the saga of a construction worker's family with all the woes of Eugene O'Neill's Hartford clan but none of the dramatic impact. Even such a formidable cast could not sustain the numbing...
...works seems largely a matter of pacing and acting. The script, taken from Frederick Knott's most recent Broadway thriller, wouldn't be worth a damn if badly played. Although it is relentlessly logical, it starts from an incredible premise--that a blind housewife, alone and confronted by a maniac and two criminal associates, would engage them in a battle of wits instead of just dissolving...
...accountant (Gene Wilder) in a convoluted cabal. Given the improper circumstances, a Broadway entrepreneur can make more from a flop than he can from a hit-by pocketing the backers' money after the show folds. Accordingly, the two men begin a search for the world's worst script. Mostel finally zeroes in on Springtime for Hitler, written by an unrepentant Nazi who believes that the Führer was infinitely superior to Churchill because he had more hair and besides, he was a better painter ("He could do a room in one afternoon-two coats...