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Leslie Braverman, a celebrated critic, dies suddenly at 41. Among the mourners are four of his friends: a flamboyantly mustachioed fund raiser (George Segal); a gruff, insecure womanizer (Jack Warden) who, upon hearing the bad news while in bed with his girl, dutifully removes his toupee; an oleaginous scholar of comic books (Sorrell Booke); and a Talmudic professor-lecturer (Joseph Wiseman) who wears an expression of perpetual disgust, as if he were forever smelling fried...
...Character Play (TIME, Dec. 22), and its currently featured Bakke's Night of Fame by Playwright John McGrath. In the latter, the action takes place in the death cell of a U.S. prison, where Bakke, awaiting electrocution at midnight, ingeniously and humorously torments his guards, the warden and the priest who is making one last attempt to save his soul. McGrath has a rare English ear for U.S. speech and manner, and the actors, mostly unknowns, keep their American accents accurate and consistent...
...have em braced such disparate subjects as the Profumo Affair, Lady Chatterley and the plagiarisms of a 17th century Polish poet, last week published his scholar's evaluation of the Warren Commission Report and its critics. A Latinist, an attorney by training and, for the last 15 years, warden of All Souls College-one of the most eminent posts in British academe-wartime Guardsman Sparrow, 61, concluded empirically that the Warren Report on the assassination must stand and that the "demonologists" who so often attack it have, without exception, forfeited serious intellectual consideration...
...legacy of this maltreatment, Fisher says, made independence in association with the other two islands meaningless for Anguilla: "They replaced a warden responsible to Britain with one responsible to St. Kitts, so there was still a warden on the island who ran it and was the only government on the island. There was no school board, no local autonomy, no council to do anything...
Rosenberg's spectre of authority is highly effective. Strother Martin is perfect as the camp warden. He speaks in a slow, mad, Truman Capote-like whine. In one scene, after savagely caning Luke, he looks at him writhing on the ground and says, "What we have here is a failure to communicate." This is the point--there is no communication between real men like Luke and the authority of a dull, oppressive society...