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...HADRIAN VII. Alec McCowen gives an elegant performance as Frederick William Rolfe, the English eccentric who imagined himself named Pope...
Paul has frequently denounced excesses of reform within the church, but last week marked the first time that he has publicly referred to schism-a word that has almost never been mentioned by pontiffs since Clement VII hurled the accusation at Henry VIII more than four centuries ago. To many Vatican observers, the Holy Week statements suggest that the Pope has taken as much as he can from the dissenters and is ready to deliver an ultimatum to those who persist in ecclesiastical rebellion...
...HADRIAN VII. Alec McCowen gives an elegant performance as Frederick William Rolfe, the English eccentric who imagined himself named Pope...
...HADRIAN VII. Playwright Peter Luke makes Frederick William Rolfe, one of the most freakishly talented eccentrics of English letters, the hero of Rolfe's own novel of wish-fulfillment, Hadrian the Seventh. Alec McCowen gives a polished performance as Rolfe, a rejected candidate for priesthood who is elected Pope...
...Hadrian VII--Alec McCowen's performance as a neurotic-intellectual-homosexual who dreams he becomes Pope is every bit as great as everyone says it is. Peter Luke's script is solid, entertaining, and happily devoid of philosophical pretentiousness. At the HELEN HAYES, W. 46th...