Word: wife
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...humorous, but as drama it needs a blood transfusion. Structure may be the chief culprit. Irish Play wright Brian Friel has divided the play into four Rashomon-style monologues. The first and last are spoken by Frank (James Mason), the faith healer, the second by Grace (Clarissa Kaye), his wife, and the third by Teddy (Donal Donnelly), Frank's promotional warmup...
...artist and his gift, the mystery of how the muse inspires, deserts and sometimes destroys its own. Friel leaves the subject as murky as he found it, but his actors are luminous. Returning to Broadway after 32 years, Mason is a necromancer at his craft. His real-life wife, Clarissa Kaye, seems like a Mother Courage on loan, and Donnelly is a mischievous imp dressed in the motley philosophy of show biz. Faith healers...
DIED. Max Conrad, 76, the "flying grandfather" who set six distance and endurance records in the air; in his sleep; in Summit, NJ. In 1950, to visit his wife and their nine children in Europe, Conrad soloed in a tiny Piper Pacer from New York to Geneva. Hooked by the fame that followed, he made nearly 200 transoceanic flights in small planes...
...first encounter is with a nice chap (Richard Jordan) whose wife has just deserted him. Diane has no difficulty in rekindling old feelings, but she cannot resist deserting him, too. Next she looks up the parody stud (John Belushi) who sexually humiliated her in high school, and finds a way of getting even. At her final destination she finds not an old flame (he has been killed in Viet Nam) but his almost psychotic younger brother (Keith Carradine), who has taken the blame for his brother's death on himself. Diane lures him into a sexual relationship that...
...time, a mushroom cloud over Chesapeake Bay provides the adventure with a fissionable finale. Authors Oran and Hoklin, who have both served as congressional aides, do a Capitol job of describing the suites and sours of D.C. The atomic mechanics seem even more plausible: Dan Oran's wife is a nuclear physicist...