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...vulgar mannerisms, the two Prufrocks reverse their accustomed stage personae to hint at tenuous meanings as complex as any in Eliot's poetry. Gielgud, a seedy intellectual in beer-stained pinstripes, conceals his natural grace and authority under nervous movements-hitching up his pants, ruffling his sandy-haired wig, filching cigarettes. He babbles an obbligato of literary cliches in an excessively ingratiating attempt to establish human contact. Richardson's stock character, the failed dreamer, prefers to stay pick led in his past: his arm now is to "drink with dignity." This monument to frozen illusions suddenly shatters...
...Employee E. Howard Hunt, with bogus identification papers, a wig, a speech-alteration device, and a camera in a tobacco pouch. In addition, the agency provided the White House with a psychological profile of Daniel Ellsberg...
...Kowalski, Blanche DuBois is seduced by him. Tennessee learned of Lang's plans just before the opening and immediately got an injunction to stop the performance. Ruling the show could go on, a three-judge panel reinstated the rape and ordered the sepia-skinned Kaufmann to wear a wig of Caucasian hair. Lang was disappointed. "Kowalski is not a brutal proletarian helping to destroy an old traditional civilization," he said, "I see him as a democratizing force...
...They even stopped for a while in a drive-in movie. Immediately after his release, Matthews, fearing reprisal by the S.L.A., did not tell the authorities that Patty had been in the truck. But two days after the Shootout, he confessed that Patty-wearing a short, dark, afro-style wig as a disguise-not only had been a member of the trio but had been remarkably willing to talk and chatted away like any 20-year-old girl on a date...
...first the premise seems perilously cute. The time is "nippy fall, 1973," and the ladies of the "Long Island Masque and Wig Society" gather to run through a rehearsal of their latest production - a musical based on an 1845 play, Fashion; or Life in New York, by Anna Cora Mowatt, who was America's first woman playwright. So this is the 19th century Americana of Mrs. Mowatt's quaint, forgotten classic refracted through the 20th century Americana of suburban matrons in amateur theatricals. Except that the players in Manhattan's McAlpin Rooftop Theater are all totally professional...