Word: stagings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bank were incorporated into Israel. That, to me, would be very destructive of the fundamental ideals of the Jewish people." Adds Los Angeles Rabbi Jacob Ott: "One successful visit with the President and one warmhearted week with the Jewish community are not conclusive. Begin is still in the testing stage...
...gruff but likable Lou Grant, who lost his newsroom job at WJM-TV, cut the mustard on a daily newspaper? Can gimpy Fred Sanford dance out of a ghetto junkyard and onto a variety-show stage? Will a web-footed survivor from Atlantis surface as this season's TV hero...
...five-week run at Washington's Kennedy Center last week. The old parties who fret, fuss, fumble and fudge their way into twilit romance are Anthony Quayle and Mary Martin. But the play is nonetheless an event, for this is Mary's first appearance on the stage since I Do! I Do! almost ten years ago. Surely she deserves the rose-colored badge of courage, if nothing else, for choosing this comeback vehicle-a fragile work that could expire of its own sweetness without a strong dose of acting magic...
Inevitably, Mary Martin has to over come the audience's expectation that some ghost of Nellie (I'm Gonna Wash That Man) Forbush will be hovering about the stage. She manages. Her one ditty is a wistful circus song that proves that at age 63, her heart wisely belongs not to memories of her glittering past but to a riper, richer present...
...just keeps bouncing amiably along, with Fonda at his most ingratiating, Saint James giving a performance that nicely balances Tina's strong drives toward both greed and love. Director Heffron (or his second-unit man) does not stage the several chase scenes as tightly as he might, and Writer Norton sketches scenes that could have been more fully developed comically and emotionally. They don't attempt to do for Austin, Texas - center of so-called outlaw country music - what Robert Altman did for Nashville. Still, Outlaw Blues is a pleasant, modest entertainment, which, like several other recent films...