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...concluded that Scott "was very professional about the interviews, very honest. He is probably the most interesting and least self-involved actor I've ever talked to. I liked him tremendously." It was almost as if Scott were determined to live up to the nickname that Actress Maureen Stapleton and Director Fielder Cook applied to him in their interviews with Reporter-Researcher Michele Whitney-Big Pussycat...
...hitting some scenery during The Wall when he could no longer tolerate one of his costars. After a period on the wagon, he got drunk and, knowing he could not perform well, deliberately missed a performance of The Andersonville Trial. During rehearsals of Plaza Suite, in later years, Maureen Stapleton confided to Mike Nichols: "I'm so frightened of George I don't know what to do." Nichols replied: "My dear, the whole world is frightened of George...
...changed not only the audiences' dining habits, but the audiences-probably for the better. "It reminds me of London," says Carol Channing, star of Four on a Garden. "The audience is not overstuffed, overfed, and can enjoy the play more. People laugh better on empty stomachs." Maureen Stapleton (The Gingerbread Lady) looks beyond the closing curtain: "I love the 7:30 curtain. It gives me more time for parties afterwards...
...play focuses on a famed ex-songstress named Evy (Maureen Stapleton), who has succumbed to the demons of alcoholism and nymphomania. She has just come home from a drying-out session at a sanatorium. Will she or will she not hit the bottle and the bed again? This is the basic situation, and it is weak, in that the audience knows that she will, or there would be no play. Evy's two closest friends want to be loyal watchdogs, but their own shaky personalities make them abettors of despair. One is a middle-aged homosexual actor (Michael Lombard...
...perilously close to it-an unsettling kind of comic tearjerker. The various relationships are scarcely credible. It is impossible to believe that anyone as self-centered as the Von Furstenberg character could have nursed Evy through drinking bout after drinking bout, as she claims to have done. Maureen Stapleton gives a high-strung, neurotically personal performance, but we can never relate the woman onstage with the poster on the wall that says she once sang in Carnegie Hall. The Evy before us might be a suburban housewife in a severe funk. Stapleton's hysteria is totally convincing, though...