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Edward Albee, playwright (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?), on his arrangement with Hollywood: "They commission me to write screenplays. They pay me handsomely, and then they don't film them. It's invisible work...
DIED. Duncan Grant, 93. the last survivor and "court painter" of the celebrated Bloomsbury group of London-based intellectuals, which included Virginia Woolf and John Maynard Keynes; in Aldermaston, England. Greatly in demand as a decorator. Grant also designed for the stage and was a postimpressionist painter of some renown...
...instructions over my head to a stage-manager, concerning when to lower the lights, cue the actors, that sort of thing. There were less than 20 people in the audience, and the most vociferous of them departed after hooting and cheering for the sexton with a toothache, Jeff Woolf (who seemed so pleased with his performance and his fans that he could barely keep a straight face). Throughout the evening, people drifted in and out of the Lehman Hall cafeteria. Three girls taking tickets in the hall chattered and giggled for a while after the show started, although they reduced...
Playwright Edward Albee is an adopted son, a fact that may well be reflected in his scripts. One psychoanalytic critique of Albee's bitter play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? claims that the drama is actually an imagined confrontation between Albee's natural and adoptive parents. Indeed, psychological studies show that adoptees are often obsessed by fantasies about their missing biological parents. Now a new report finds that these fanciful illusions can damage not only adoptees but also even children temporarily placed in foster homes...
...mawkish finale that seems inspired by Who's Afraid of Vir ginia Woolf?, the film calls attention to all of Wertmuller's worst habits. Characters are forever letting loose with faddish and fatuous pronouncements about the connections between love and power. Loud music and pounding drums on the sound track accent the script's most histrionic moments...