Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have just read your superb and frightening article on Environment [Feb. 2], and you have certainly persuaded this now reformed emissionary to do all possible to convert our effluent society...
Despite its superb ensemble work, the British National company has been unable to conceal during this Los Angeles run that it has one actress on its roster with the special authority of a star, Maggie Smith. As Masha, flinging herself into the brief, doomed adulterous affair with Colonel Vershinin (Robert Stephens), she is the incandescent epitome of all women in love. Here is a Hedda Gabler of a Russian provincial town, a woman of fire, intelligence, gravity and spirit, married to a bureaucratic paper clip of a man who bores her to headaches rather than tears. Impelled to passion with...
...asked Nicholls about the actor's commitment to his role in Hair. "I'm afraid of the word 'actor' because I don't know what it means. "His performance had been superb that night, but he nevertheless said modestly, "If I'm an actor, I don't know it." Assistant director Danny Sullivan had told Nicholls that "acting is just knowing what the character is supposed to be and then just taking those traits in the character that you have and amplifying them...
...Hair. His staging of the show covers up incredible weaknesses." But severe shortcomings are hardly visible. The choreography is excellent, and a controlled chaos in the dancing make the show realistic. The music is usually light and funny, but sometimes deep and moving as well. And the acting is superb...
...ABOUT half the film the effect is stunning. The juxtaposition of the Stones, singing black music and gyrating to black rhythms, and the blacks themselves, sitting on wrecked cars (the destitute remains of the West) reciting texts of third world liberation, is superb. And, for about half the film, the Stones are fascinating to watch. When Nicky Hopkins plays the organ (not the piano, as on the recorded version) while Jagger chants, "I was here when Jesus Christ had his moments of doubt and pain," you begin to believe that the devil is holier or at least more human, than...