Word: somehow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lead role with precisely that lack of restraint. His grimaces, anguished pleas and explosions of rage are perfectly suited to the part he plays and the circumstances Billy faces. This movie required the self-indulgence that comes naturally to an inexperienced actor like Davis, and his occasional histrionics somehow blend into the texture of a film relying on extravagance and emotional catharsis for much of its appeal...
...bill. Nathan should be played somewhere along the line between macho and henpecked-neurotic, the way Sam Levene created the character in the original back in '47. Levi has a nice voice, but it doesn't help much; Nathan doesn't have to sing very often. His characterization seems somehow too neurotic, too much mama's boy and not quite enough swagger for the proprietor of a floating crap game. But he's funny. They're all funny, or at least funny enough...
...technical problems, the crew did the best it could. Often their best left a great deal to be desired. The set seems comically tacky at times, particularly in the big sewer scene in Act Two, when three gamblers have to carry flats in with them from the wings, while somehow negotiating the three "Death Ramps" that provide access to the stage. Still, it doesn't really matter. They're good. They're all good, or at least good enough...
...read dirty magazines at Nini's Corner only to see three liquor-brave men wearing hospital-clean tuxedos and gnawing on cigars like billowing corporate smokestacks laughing fraternally and singing the Latin chorus of "Ten Thousand Men of Harvard" out of key. The repulsion or infatuation he feels will somehow translate into his own social symbols...
...world who knows how to survive, who's grown a little shabby, a little scruffy, perhaps, but who keeps his sense of style along with his white gloves. Allen C. Kennedy's Mack the Knife sounds like a two-bit punk who got lost in Flatbush and somehow ended up in London, 1830. It's not necessarily a wrong-headed interpretation, but it needs strength, consistency, and a sense of Macheath's age--and Kennedy gives it none of these...