Word: yentl
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MANDY PATINKIN IN CONCERT: DRESS CASUAL. The edgy, high-energy star of stage (Evita) and film (Yentl) thrills Broadway with a brilliantly idiosyncratic styling of ballad and show tunes...
Debra Winger, Amy Irving, Rosanna Arquette: moviemakers should be begging to ! snare these actresses for fat and sassy leading roles. No such luck. Irving has for a dozen years commuted easily between stage (Amadeus, The Road to Mecca) and screen (Carrie, Yentl), but movies have rarely caught her witchy allure. Arquette seemed a cinch for stardom after Desperately Seeking Susan, but her elfin sensuality has proved too weird for mainstream fare. As for the wondrous Winger, she anchored three big hits of the early '80s. But after Urban Cowboy, An Officer and a Gentleman and Terms of Endearment, her career...
...take solemn pleasure in Director Martin Ritt's familiar craftsmanship. You can enjoy the strong performance by Richard Dreyfuss (as Claudia's public and private defender). You may even smile at Streisand's straining to create another movie metaphor for her own fettered Hollywood eminence. Claudia, like Yentl before her, is a smart, sexy woman whose place of respect the boys in power want to deny. Streisand, who has both power and respect, might be advised to use that leverage on a project less conventional and complacent than this very mixed Nuts...
...create remains as long as one breathes," says an obscure Yiddish poet in one of these tales, and he obviously speaks for his author as well as for all the compulsive monologists who continue to pop up in and then dominate Singer's short stories. "Now listen," commands Aunt Yentl, who is overheard telling three different anecdotes, and only the dull or the terminally uninterested could possibly disobey...
Barbra Streisand's 1983 film adaptation of his short story Yentl, the Yeshiva Boy, produced a Hollywood extravaganza so removed from the original that he still finds the whole subject extremely painful. But that setback didn't dissuade Isaac Bashevis Singer, 80, from launching two new plays off-Broadway. A Play for the Devil is currently running in Yiddish at the Folksbiene Theater, and a dramatic adaptation of his story Shlemiel, the First just closed at the Jewish Repertory Theater. Singer, who won the 1978 Nobel Prize for Literature, has no illusions about the differences between drama...