Word: waltzed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some actors might be called the lion tamers of the theater. Katharine Hepburn may not be talking good sense in West Side Waltz, but when she puts her incandescent ardor behind any given sentence, you'd better believe it. Lauren Bacall is no great shakes as a dancer or singer, but when she fixes a playgoer with those tigress eyes, cool judgment succumbs to shimmering illusion...
None of the four--at one time or another stellar junior skaters--competes on "the circuit" anymore, having bartered sit spins and waltz jumps for the pen and quill of academia; needless to say, studies just don't mix with the seven and eight hours daily competitive figure skaters pump into workouts (you decide which one settles to the bottom). "An Evening" affords skaters like Rehkamp et al a prestigious opportunity to showcase the fruits of what was obviously once a large part of their lives, and they take advantage of it. All four have participated before; all but Rehkamp...
Mintz plays Liebesleid, the best composition and best performance on the DG disc, with unusual maturity for a twenty-four-year old. His moving interpretation of melodies on the fiddle tell of precocity with women. This is therefore good music to waltz to. (Make sure the room is candle-lit, and try to get Sugar drunk on Chateau Lafite Rothchild.) Since Liebesleid is the last piece on side one, make sure your record player is rigged to keep on playing after the needle reaches the end. The atmosphere is just right for those final moments of reflection on past romance...
...WEST SIDE WALTZ by Ernest Thompson
...year, Fonda has published his autobiography (with Howard Teichmann as his Boswell). Though disabled by serious heart disease, he still hopes to appear on Broadway next year as F.D.R.'s confidant Harry Hopkins. In her 75th year, Hepburn is magnetizing the attention of Philadelphia theatergoers in The West Side Waltz, prior to its Broadway opening next week. The play, written by On Golden Pond's Ernest Thompson, takes its own sweet three-quarter time to penetrate the twilight life of a Manhattan widow, but Hepburn triumphantly skirts sentimentality, displaying her radiance even as her character limps, hobbles and crawls toward...