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Still, at the ambiguous center of The Merchant of Venice is Shylock. No one knows exactly what to do with this embittered Jew, and Claudio Buchwald is no exception. Kenneth Tynan once described this character as "sort of a capitalistic Caliban." If that is the case, Buchwald is more a capitalist and less a Caliban. Yet though he misses much of the humor in Shylock. Buchwald's creation will be a tough one to forget. Wringing his hands and shakily glancing over his sagging shoulder, he fails to miss a physical or vocal nuance for his chosen portrayal. His feet...
Condon's hero is Tynan Bryson, a Welsh movie star-an obvious fiction, since there is no such thing as a Welsh movie star. Tyson has had only one failure in his 46 pictures (a Hungarian director persuaded him to portray Thomas Jefferson as Richard Nixon might have played him). And he has finally achieved his and every other actor's dream: his contract calls for him to receive exactly 100% of the total gross of his next production...
...ACTOR (ABC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Sir Alec Guinness heads a cast of British theatrical performers in this ABC News study of the acting profession. Critic Kenneth Tynan wrote the script for the show...
Hochhuth's latest libel seems likely to get as much circulation as his first. Kenneth Tynan and Sir Laurence Olivier, who were prevented by England's Lord Chamberlain from giving the world premiere at their National Theater in London, plan to offer the play at a censorship-free private theater club. Productions are also scheduled for five other European capitals...
...hardly shocking ?long-forgotten efforts by John Steinbeck, Erskine Caldwell, Somerset Maugham, Robert Ruark. Playboy also dipped into the ribald classics; despite constant mining, the Boccaccio and De Maupassant vein is still running strong. In the early days, name writers shunned Playboy. Today, Vladimir Nabokov, James Baldwin, Kenneth Tynan, Herbert Gold, Ray Bradbury and Ken Purdy regularly provide respectable material. This upgrading of fiction is largely due to Auguste Comte Spectorsky,* 56, who was hired from NBC by Hefner to bring some New York know-how and sophistication (a favorite Playboy word) to the magazine. "Spec" has done that...