Word: tango
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...FIRST, Tango seems to be just another avant-garde play with a gimmick. In this case the cute twist is a generation-gap role-reversal. The older members of the family are non-conformists and the young son is a traditionalist. By the time act one comes to a close, the audience feels as if it's being hit over the head with this witty, bizarre, but tediously predictable pattern...
...these actions and emotions are powerful even when stripped of political implication. What helps Tango in this production are portrayals by all seven cast members that bring alive these feelings of leading, following, searching...
...Tango. By Slawomir Mrozek (Heavy on the slavics, this week) at the Loeb Ex, April 23-25, with an additional show Saturday at 3:30 p.m. Tickets free the day before...
...Larry, Lenny Baker personifies the flaws of the film. Leading a seductive tango or impressing a film producer with his wit, Larry is as adept as any young actor could hope to be. And he is even better at impersonation. Waiting on an open-air subway platform in the middle of the night, he comically plays Brando, Edward G. Robinson, his mother, and himself accepting an Oscar to rounds of imaginary applause. But Baker can't play without posing--his mouth freezes into the armored look of detachment...
...weeks. If it does as well in subsequent releases-it is scheduled to open in Boston, San Francisco and Los Angeles on March 10, and in approximately 40 additional cities by the end of April-it will be not only one of the most popular foreign films since Last Tango in Paris, but a healthy hit even by Hollywood standards...