Word: ullmann
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...beauty must be able to project herself, be dramatic, an actress." Hollywood Starlet Deborah Raffin, 22, a lean blonde with almost cliché American looks, has projected herself with more effect on the covers of glossy magazines than in the movies. Picked at age 19 to play Liv Ullmann's daughter in 40 Carats, she also starred in the uproariously bad Once Is Not Enough. Deborah insists on being identified when she models. "She does it to build her name," says her husband-manager, Michael Viner. The Viners are a refreshingly naive couple in Beverly Hills. Deborah likes stuffed...
...Roof. The British sent over a generation of stars, including Alec McCowen and Diana Rigg playing together with the finesse of the Lunts in The Misanthrope, John Wood portraying a rapier-sharp Sherlock Holmes, Anthony Hopkins and Peter Firth in the psychological tour de force Equus. Even Liv Ullmann turned up, though in a disappointing production of A Doll's House; her presence gave the season an extra glow...
...flaws, Ullmann has a thin voice with a narrow, monotonous range. In a Bergman film, with its still, deep pauses, this is not immediately apparent, but onstage it becomes a cumulative irritant. Ullmann's English is good, but not quite good enough. Taking the skylark and "little squirrel" imagery of the play literally, she skitters about the stage like a sandpiper. This does not destroy Nora's coquettishness, but it certainly diminishes it. There seems to be an arbitrary rhetoric of motions with which Ullmann plays the role. When she fears that her husband Torvald (Sam Waterston) will...
Here we are at the core of Ullmann's misconception of the role. Her Nora does not grow toward self-awareness or strive for emancipation (as Claire Bloom's so affectingly did a few seasons ago). Instead, she simply seems to assert herself by different methods. Thus there is no sense of either exhilaration or poignance in her departure...
...Nora buckles. Still, this cast might be sued for nonsupport. With no trace of a guiding hand from Norwegian Director Tormod Skagestad, the players appear to be introducing themselves to each other at first rehearsal. As Torvald, Waterston is a mildly ruffled porcupine who can be dequilled instantly by Ullmann. Petty or not, Torvald should be a visible tyrant. After all, Nora is not slamming the door at middle-level management, but at the historic tyranny of convention...