Word: tynan
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...nude scene, but she would do almost anything for a break. She promises to be her mother's double: tall and graceful with the same wide face and wide-spaced eyes; she has the same seductive smile. The only thing missing is what Critic Kenneth Tynan called Pat Neal's "dark brown voice." Her father Roald Dahl, the British writer, confirms another similarity: "She's a worldly, ambitious girl, just like her mother...
Singer Helen Reddy's sell out London concert, attracted Critic Kenneth Tynan, Actor Danny Kaye and scores of others, but Richardson turned into the star attraction as soon as Lord Harlech's 1930s jazz records began spinning. With his wife Anne away in the U.S. for a visit, the ambassador quickly stepped forward with the guest of honor and began to jitterbug, boogie and foxtrot his way around the dance floor. The British duly took note. Observed the London Evening Standard afterward: "Mr. Richardson has a particularly outstanding sense of rhythm and is an energetic and talented dancer...
...unwilling to commit itself to anything more specific than Film. In the thirty-five second long Breath, the only elements are rubbish and recorded cries and breaths. (This sequence, Alvarez somewhat startlingly reveals, was written for the revue Oh, Calcutta, but withdrawn by the author when producer Kenneth Tynan insisted on scattering naked bodies among the rubbish...
Polanski and Tynan are uncomfortable with Shakespeare and that is understandable; the greatness of the play is a burden. Problems arise only when they assume that it is Shakespeare that must be changed and not their own dramatic interpretation. When they do that, they emerge as witnesses to an old truth--that those who try to improve Shakespeare end only by proving him right...
...Tynan-Polanski Macbeth is hardly definitive, and it may, in fact, point more to the hazards of adaptation than to the rewards. If never satisfying as a whole there are individual shots in the film, even entire sequences, where Shakespeare, Polanski and Tynan are of one mind, and then it all comes right for a moment...