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EVERY GOOD BOY DESERVES FAVOR by Tom Stoppard Music by Andre Previn...
...Stoppard were not a playwright, he would probably be a magician-or a card shark. He delights in illusions and confusions, puns and verbal crostics, taking away with his left hand what he has just given with his right. In Every Good Boy Deserves Favor, at Washington's Kennedy Center, he has taken his art to its immediate limit: the play itself is a trick...
...really crazy? The bestial Soviet state, obviously, and a system that officially turns the sane into the insane and pretends that its own insanity is rea son itself. As slyly as if he were pulling a rabbit from his hat, Stoppard has written a play as propaganda, and its anti-Soviet message is all the more effective for its wit and humor. Andre Previn's music, which he himself conducted, is equally witty. Hinting at Prokofiev and Shostakovich, Previn underlines Stoppard's words and adds his own notes of satire. When Alexander, for instance, says that confinement will...
...film Despair, an adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's novel. Though he has worked on more than 30 pictures, he says flatly that working with Fassbinder was "the most enjoyable experience I've ever had in the movies." Director and star understood one another instinctively. "Rainer and Tom Stoppard, the scriptwriter, came down to my house in the south of France to talk about the film," says Bogarde. "After four minutes we knew that we would get along, and I said that I didn't see any need to talk about it further. He then took a pile...
...once batting her intense blue eyes, she will reel off a list of her own disasters long enough to paper the Taj Mahal. There was the time she played Desdemona in Los Angeles and audiences almost cheered when Othello smothered her. Then there was the opening night of Tom Stoppard's Jumpers in Washington, D.C.: she opened a door and it crashed down...