Word: sidney
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MARINA NUÑEZ DEL PRADO and SIDNEY WOLFSON - World House, 987 Madison Ave. at 77th. New works by Miss Del Prado, a Bolivian sculptress who exploits the grain of exotic woods, smooths onyx and marble into virginal shapes that often echo the human form; and 40 paintings by New Yorker Wolfson, whose subtle shades sing in soft harmony. Through...
...Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window, by Lorraine Hansberry, has too many minds of its own. It is overloaded, overwritten and overwrought. It is about guilt and guilt collectors, venting their oral-compulsive laments in a Greenwich Village setting. Through the play troop the Quixotes who venture into political quicksands, the soiled hipsters of success and the purist false priests of failure, self-deceiving bohemians, homosexuals, husbands, wives, artists and whores. Everything overlaps and the play has diversity without direction. It endlessly circles its own conversation...
Feeding out the play's entangling plot lines are Sidney Brustein (Gabriel Dell), a disabused idealist who still quivers at the drop of a line from Thoreau, and his wife Iris (Rita Moreno), a would-be Duse who is ready, to stoop to TV commercials. They would rather bicker and brood than curse and make up. In the intervals between their somewhat tiresome spats, the best scenes and acting of the play occur. Top honors go to Alice Ghostley as Iris' proper older sister, an inflated marshmallow of a woman. In one bravura monologue, she tells...
...these and several other scenes, Director Sidney Lumet rises vigorously to the dread occasion. Item: the large animated map, on which enormous aerial battles are imagined in diagram and followed as they flow, is a magnificent narrative conceit. But during the last half of the film the illusion of reality slowly collapses into a steaming mess of socio-political platitudes ("In a nuclear war, everybody loses"). If Dr. Strangelove, as some think, made a serious subject silly, Fail Safe too often makes a serious subject soggy. The customers begin to yawn and then to smile. Indeed, in the final scene...
...PRESIDENCY: A SPLENDID MISERY (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).*A CBS News special with the words of various Presidents read by Actors James Daly, Gary Merrill, Sidney Blackmer, Macdonald Carey, E. G. Marshall, Herbert Marshall, Dan O'Herlihy, and Robert Ryan. Fredric March is host-narrator...