Word: well-cast
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While the play has been deservedly well-cast, the fantastic acting creation of the evening is Michael O'Sullivan's Tartuffe. It is appropriate, if amazing, to say that the ham in the actor reveals the pig in mankind. Sparing no excess of speech, gesture or mien, he performs a surrealistic wedding dance of malice and humor. Almost equal praise accrues to Richard Wilbur, the poet. Despite a slight trace of melodic monotony, his springy, intelligent couplets turn Molière's French into speakably idiomatic English...
...evolution of the U.S. presidency with a succession of evocative vignettes of its most forceful incumbents. George Washington, fussily acted by Larry Gates, fought with a Machiavellian Hamilton and a statesmanlike Jefferson over nonintervention in the French Revolution, establishing the principle of presidential supremacy in foreign affairs. A rasping, well-cast Jackson (J. D. Cannon) was seen raging against the National Bank. Webster and Clay replied in opposition and in kind, but Jackson torpedoed Biddle's "monster of corruption," firmly established the executive veto...
...citizens of Peyton Place are performed with a variety of accents and speech defects. Diane Varsi seems uncertain as the illegitimate girl, a sensitive-type child who reads books and listens to classical music. Hope Lange is adequate as her friend the murderess, and Terry Moore is well-cast in a low-cut dress. Lana Turner reverses her field to play a woman afraid of love, and does so in a professional manner...
...only other well-cast major role in the movie is that of Rita Hayworth, who plays an exstripper "Vanessa the Undresser" who has married into the position of society queen. Rita is equally skillful maintaining aristocratic social distance or singing "Zip"--"The way to my heart is unzipped again." Pretty as she is, however, Rita has grown too old to attract men's minds...
...make ends meet-and to make a profit as well-Saudek hopes to branch out. He talks of a jazz series, a high-toned dramatic series, and a children's program which will "excite youngsters [he has five of his own] into involvement with the world." All he needs, says Saudek, is "the well-conceived idea, the well-written word, the well-cast performer and the well-spent dollar." And he believes that all of them are within reach...