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Answer: Yes. The Gentele-inspired Carmen is a masterpiece of taste, wit, theatrical imagination and, most delightful of all, good music. It is a gift of fresh spring rain after the long winter of interpretative obfuscation that, in one opera house after another (including the Met), has virtually turned the work into a gypsy folk opera. This Carmen does not carry a rose in her teeth; she would bite it off. Don Jose is no innocent victim of Carmen's wiles; to her obvious fascination, he is a brute with enough temper to kill. With the hauntingly Iberian sets...
Stoppard pushes this and related theses with antic wordplay, inspired zaniness and crackerjack wit. The evening would sag in spots if it were not for Hordern. What might have been simply a caricature of an absent-minded professor emerges as a warmly affectionate portrait of the last living humanist. And Rigg is lovely to look at, especially in the nude, and to listen to as she delivers her lines with a resolute intelligence that seems to unbend the pretzel twists of thought...
...broadcasting, it is not necessarily the sharpest wit but the pointiest elbow that often gets the prize. At the convention's end, when the preliminary rating report showed ABC with the greatest gain, Bill Sheehan beamed like a cheerleader. "We're going to be No. 2 by the end of the year. We're breathing down NBC's neck. We're basking in momentum." At NBC there was private worry: "Does the Chancellor-Brinkley team have enough-I don't know -enough sex, enough viewer appeal?" asked an executive. "We just...
...Waterston is Benedick to the last corpuscle. He brandishes his cigar like a swagger stick. He discovers his love half knowingly, but with astonishment nonetheless, like a child finding the tooth fairy's silver dollar. Kathleen Widdoes makes Beatrice a proper combination of cold wit and hot blood. When she exclaims, "I may sit in a corner and cry heigh-ho for a husband...
Died. Oscar Levant, 65, composer and pianist whose dour, waspish wit nourished a turbulent career in radio, television and films (see SHOW BUSINESS & TELEVISION...