Word: segal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? Bloodletting in the groves of academe. Two faculty couples (Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, Sandy Dennis and George Segal) cut each other up with words, words, and more words in a deft screen version of Edward Albee's play...
...AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Sandy Dennis and George Segal play truth-and-consequences and other savage games in this screen version of Edward Albee's baleful, brutally funny Broadway play...
...AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal and Sandy Dennis star in the screen version of Edward Albee's violently verbal shock treatment, subtly directed by Mike Nichols...
...runaway hit of the show was easily Segal's creation, The Truck. It consisted of the actual cab of a red panel truck that Segal had found in a junkyard. Inside, the odometer read 85,723, the generator and oil-pressure gauges glowed red in the dashboard. In the driver's seat was an alert, life-size white plaster driver, both hands on the wheel, right foot hovering over the accelerator. As viewers looked over his shoulders at the windshield, they shared a Cineramic ride through city streets, as lights, cars and bright neon signs whizzed...
...bring off the joy ride, Segal had rigged a small film projector and mirror arrangement to the right of the cab, which beamed the movie onto the truck's frosted windshield. Watching it, one housewife confided: "That's the way my husband drives." Chuckled a young executive: "I go through that every night." Juror Martin Friedman, director of Minneapolis' Walker Art Center, put it another way: "I found it very moving. Actually," he said, "by treating the man almost as a ghost, as a calcified figure, Segal presents you with reality, then questions the existence of reality...