Word: vanessa
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Hall launched the project with star vehicles: Vanessa Redgrave in Tennessee Williams' Orpheus Descending and Dustin Hoffman in The Merchant of Venice, both of which transferred to Broadway. Now he aims at London only, ranging from the money-harried gloom of Ibsen's The Wild Duck to the haute-bourgeois sexual antics of Tartuffe. In October he returns briefly to the nonprofit R.S.C. with an All's Well That Ends Well starring Sophie Thompson, sister of Oscar winner Emma. His best evidence yet that a classic can prevail on the basis of the text itself is Lysistrata. The ancient Greek...
...what Lynn Redgrave recalls as a characteristic family photograph, her father Michael and sister Vanessa posed exquisitely in front while the workaday members of the family -- Lynn, her brother Corin and mother Rachel Kempson -- stood demurely behind. She doesn't come out and say so, but the grouping was painfully apt. While acting seems to be a genetic imperative for the clan (five generations have worked in the business), only Michael and Vanessa have been touched by the magical ability to make transcendence look effortless. He was among the greatest of a towering generation that included Olivier, Richardson and Gielgud...
...Deeply. But on the boards in London, her range is astonishing, from the hoydenish Rosalind in As You Like It to the nihilistic Hedda Gabler, from the sexually awakening adolescent of Troilus and Cressida to the avenging victim of Death and the Maiden. She approximates the emotional clarity of Vanessa Redgrave, the assertive power of Judi Dench and the braying, spiteful fun of Maggie Smith -- and adds an androgynous beauty suited equally to Shakespeare's pants parts and to the contemporary feminist dialectics of the vehicle she has chosen for her U.S. stage debut, Howard Barker's Scenes from...
...film's deepest friendship is between Margaret and the frail Ruth Wilcox (Vanessa Redgrave). In a lovely scene, Ruth summons her ebbing strength to secure a sprig in Margaret's hair. It is also a laurel from Redgrave, the great actress of her generation, to Thompson, the next generation's Most Likely to Succeed...
...this reticence a matter of residual shame -- retained from his religious childhood -- or considerate tact? People who were close to Gunn are sure they know the answer. Says Vanessa Caldwell, his assistant at the Montgomery (Alabama) Women's Medical Clinic: "He was a very open, honest man. I think that's why it bothered him that his family didn't know the kind of work he did, exactly. He knew it would hurt them if they found...