Word: themes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Soupy Scenario. The season's action series are ticketed for anyone from nine to 90-IQ, that is. The Green Hornet (ABC), concocted by the man behind Batman, is played straight. Only changes from the 1936-52 radio version are James Bond-type hardware and a bigger-beat theme song, blown by Al Hirt. There is nothing wrong with the show that cannot be cured by turning off the set. Tarzan (NBC) has a vaster menagerie than last season's high-rated jungle epic, Daktari, and just as soupy a scenario. Ron Ely is mesomorphic enough as Tarzan...
...Manhattan's Lincoln Center Repertory Theater, and Mela an off-Broadway starlet who recently taught Latin in a Long Island high school-move with a fine unregarding spontaneity that turns parts into people. In the relations between these two people Director Korty achieves the fullest realization of his theme. He demonstrates day by day, crisis by crisis, how fear and lust and ignorance transform at last into the sacred mystery of marriage...
...three days of toasts, banquets and amicable discussions, Maurer echoed Ceausescu's theme of cooperation in the Balkans by means of bilateral relations. The Rumanians made a fair start in Greece: at visit's end, the two nations initiated a communique covering not only trade and economic cooperation but also such esoteric items as telecommunications and plant-disease control...
Also rehearsing is The Apple Tree, the first musical directed by Mike Nichols; it is a triple bill loosely lifted from the writings of Mark Twain, Frank Stockton and Cartoonist Jules Feiffer. The unifying forces are the theme "man, woman and the devil," and score and lyrics by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick, who did Fiddler on the Roof. A final derivative musical is Cabaret, which in earlier incarnations was Christopher Isherwood's The Berlin Stories and the John van Druten drama I Am a Camera. With Jill Haworth in the old Julie Harris role, it is already...
Burning Sincerity. Whatever the theme or style, the essence of the blues is a quality of burning sincerity called "soul." "Soul is something that you feel within yourself and you gotta give to the people," explains Singer-Guitarist Magic Sam. "It's hardship, what you've been through. I love it even though it makes me sad, because that's what I am." Adds retired Harmonica Player Shaky Jake: "Blues are the true story, the truest music I ever heard in my life...