Word: sleuths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Only reading period gives the January theater season much appeal, but there are a few things on his weekend which are good for more than just killing time. Sleuth is wrapping up its Boston run this week, a last chance to see the theatrical original. Only whodunit literati begrudge Anthony Shaffer his many tricks, other find it delightful. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest drew many critics' sneers when it opened off-Broadway. While the dramatization might not so nearly approach the greatness of Ken Kesey's novel, it's powerful enough on its own. Godspell keeps youthquaking along...
COLONIAL THEATER. Sleuth at 7:30, mats. Thurs...
...Sleuth. The most overrated film thus far this year. Joseph L. Manckiewicz directs with the tired hands of an old whore, and the screenplay itself is not really that clever-an indictment of upper-class gamesmanship which considers itself righteous by having hairdresser Michael Caine expose detective story writer Laurence Olivier as a fake Labored...
COLONIAL THEATER. Sleuth at 7:30, mats, Thurs...
...REAL INSPECTOR HOUND by Tom Stoppard. A spoof of mystery thrillers and drama critics that is cleverer than Sleuth...