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DIED. Cathleen Nesbitt, 93, versatile British character actress whose career lasted 70 sparkling years on the London and Broadway boards; in London. "Incredibly, inordinately, devastatingly, immortally, calamitously, hearteningly, adorably beautiful," said the poet Rupert Brooke of Nesbitt at 24. Photographed by George Bernard Shaw, directed by the Shakespearean scholar Harley Granville-Barker, she began as an ingenue and ended in elegant dowager parts, most notably in the original My Fair Lady and the 1980-81 touring revival, which was her final appearance. "I haven't been known as a great actress," she said then. "But I've been...
...actually heard Christopher Walken play or read Shakespeare before hiring him. The vocal deficiencies I cited in his Hotspur last month have not diminished. I don't want to give the impression that Walken's experience has been entirely in film, when in fact he has done a dozen Shakespearean roles on stage, including Hamlet eight years ago. I should think, however, that a person who has had all these outings and has now arrived at the age of 39 still so ill-suited to Shakespeare's verse would decide to turn his efforts else where...
...decades earlier, another great critic, James Agate, reviewing a production of I Henry IV, stated: "Shakespearean history is like beer; some is better than other some, but none is bad. I could sit for hours and listen entranced to such cataloguing as: 'Of prisoners, Hotspur took/Mordake the Earl of Fife, and eldest son/To beaten Douglas; and the Earl of Athol,/Of Murray, Angus and Menteith.'" I doubt that there are many who would agree with Tynan, and I'm sure precious few would echo Agate...
...husband-and-wife radio talk programs; in New York City. The Fitzgeralds gave their audience a daily dose of soap opera vérité, ranging from family spats to discussions of cats, Fitzgerald's failing health and news events, all of it laced with low-key gossip, Shakespearean quotations and rambling reminiscences...
...cove on the coast of a Cornwall that never was, Ronstadt is dead on her feet. She leans her head on Smith's shoulder between takes. All the pirates are on hand, and so are the major general's daughters. George Rose, the major general, a veteran Shakespearean actor trained at the Old Vic and Royal Shakespeare Theater, is never out of character and never needs a retake. Kevin Kline, the pirate king, has a fencing shirt with a decolletage that makes matrons of good reputation go googly...