Word: superman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Casting Shakespeare in modern dress, Orson Welles sleight-of-handed Caesar the role of a fascist. Hollywood's Joe Mankiewicz saw his Caesar as a kind of tired, pompous stockbroker. Shaw's hero in Caesar and Cleopatra is a worldly-wise but disenchanted superman whom power has made not mad, but sad. Front-rank Historical Novelist Duggan (The Little Emperors) throws dirt on these literary ghosts by spading straight for the facts and unearthing many a fascinating shard from ancient Roman political life...
Louis the film rascals outrate all three competing programs combined. In Detroit they have an ARE rating of 35.8 against the 2.2 of their closest rivals. In Cleveland they do better than Superman, and in Hollywood, on one occasion, not even a spectacular could come close to them...
...figure of Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment has important philosophic implications. There are comparable conceptions of the Superman in other countries: in England, Marlowe's Faustus; in Germany, Nietzshe's Ubermensch; in America, "Superman Comics." With his pipe clenched slightly crooked through an ironic smile, Professor Renato Poggioli warmed to his subject. And if the mark of a brilliant teacher is his ability to remain popular while insulting, threatening, and deliberately patronizing his students, then Poggioli must certainly be brilliant...
...slopes of Mt. Olympus turned his true love down cold when her father produced only $600 of a promised $800. Even in up-to-date Athens, where marriageable women far outnumber available men, the man who marries for love alone is considered a crackpot. "If I worked like Superman," complained the Athenian father of eight daughters recently, "I still couldn't get together enough money for their dowries...
...well: the three weird sisters, along with many of the supporting players, often seemed as drowned in gibberish as in mist. For next season, Evans and Schaefer are thinking of deserting Shakespeare for Shaw: Evans has already taken TV options on The Devil's Disciple and Man and Superman...