Word: stageful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...growing number of students duplicated the life-styles of creative adults while still at college. In addition to studying and taking exams, they played newspapermen (with all the hard-bitten, aggressive story-mongering of real journalism), or actors (all the back-biting, trauma and brilliance of the real stage), or writing (all the intense competition, as well as talent, of literary circles beyond Cambridge). Students generally favored roles which would allow them to be their own boss--at college and, even more importantly, in careers afterward. More went to law and medical schools than ever before. Also increasing...
...exclamation point!)--a document, a gadget, a pseudo-cerebral mummers' play in moral blackface. The fact that MacBird's concerns are nearly as unmemorable as its era may prove to be won't modify the play's appeal for future historians; nor can it extend MacBird's predictable stage life beyond eighteen months...
Died. Claude Rains, 76, versatile British-born actor who moved from the London stage to Hollywood's screen at 42, first as the malevolent, disembodied voice in The Invisible Man, followed by 55 other roles, from the corrupt French cop in Casablanca (1942) to the suave British diplomat in Lawrence of Arabia (1962), winning four Academy Award nominations; of an intestinal hemorrhage; in Laconia...
Barefoot in the Park is one of the few plays to be reincarnated on-screen while playing on the Broadway stage. Happily, it loses little in transition...
...original-cast production. Sly substitutions have been made, notably Fonda for Broadway's Elizabeth Ashley. Jane's performance is the best of her career: a clever caricature of a sex kitten who can purr or scratch with equal intensity. Among the tastiest leftovers from the stage are Redford as the harassed groommate and Mildred Natwick, skittering on the edge of hysteria as she articulates the film's philosophy to her daughter: "Make him feel important. If you do that, you'll have a happy and wonderful marriage, like two out of every ten couples...