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...With Honors," despite its redeeming qualities, is neither truthful nor daring. Its treatment of homelessness couldn't be triter, and as in most movies about "our generation," the characters bear little resemblance to today's college students. Like Monty's thesis, "With Honors" is too fundamentally flawed to live up to its name...
Suds & Tears. Playing a lewd, brash burlesque comedian, Sir Laurence often lifted the play-a juvenile soap opera in its triter lines-to the heights of a new Pagliacci. Most critics agreed that Olivier, with real virtuosity and superb support, had disproved the footlight adage that actors can be no better than their material. But Playwright Osborne was not disparaged too severely. Of all theatrical talents, perhaps the uncanniest is an ability to write the sort of humdrum drama that great actors can instinctively exalt. On this bittersweet basis, John Osborne got his share of the applause. But the tears...
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