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...Nancy R. Gibbs, Lois Gilman, Edward M. Gomez, Christine Gorman, Rodman Griffin, Michael P. Harris, Carol A. Johmann, Sinting Lai, JoAnn Lum, Valerie J. Marchant, Naushad S. Mehta, Katherine Mihok, Emily Mitchell, Lawrence Mondi, Christine Morgan, Adrianne Jucius Navon, Jeannie Park, Barry Rehfeld, Andrea Sachs, David E. Thigpen, William Tynan, Sidney Urquhart, Jane Van Tassel, Leslie Whitaker, Linda Williams, Linda Young
...West End, where he soon established himself as a logical successor to the reigning monarchs of the stage: Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson. Coriolanus, he thought, was his greatest role, and others agreed. "Nobody else can ever again play Coriolanus now," said Olivier. Added Critic Kenneth Tynan: "We thought he could be another Edmund Kean, that he was going to be the greatest classical actor living...
...hall of mirrors. Southerner Roy Blount Jr. indignantly recalls that "one afternoon this African got up in my favorite class, Difficult Fiction, and denounced William Faulkner for his treatment of 'non-Western people.' " Peter De Vries weighs in with a brilliant Yoknapatawpha parody, then Kenneth Tynan lampoons Faulkner in his spoonbread rendition of Our Town: "Well, folks, reckon that's about it. End of another day in the city of Jefferson, Mississippi ... Couple of people got raped, couple more got their teeth kicked in, but way up there those faraway old stars are still doing their...
Nature did not cast him to play princes. The watery eyes gave him a look both stoic and startled: in Kenneth Tynan's phrase, "like a Teddy bear snapped in a bad light by a child holding its first camera." The body was pear-shaped and the vocal tones were not; they pontificated, or quavered with sentiment. The hands rose and fluttered independently, articulating a sweetly deranged sign language. Ralph Richardson was no matinee idol?no ethereal saint like John Gielgud, whose beautiful voice could coax meaning out of a computer printout; no demon lover like Laurence Olivier, with hellfire...
...Actor, Laurence Olivier, came out in Britain in October and will be published in the U.S. next month (Simon & Schuster; $16.95). Sometimes embarrassingly frank, other times disappointingly discreet, it is, from beginning to end, always Olivier. He turned down would-be collaborators, like the late Critic Kenneth Tynan, and began work with a ghost. But after talking into a tape recorder for 30 or 40 hours, he took charge, as he usually does, and wrote everything himself. Now, on this chilly fall day, he has come in from the country to talk about his life and what he calls...