Word: authority
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...talented younger brothers along with him on his journey. Zoltan, saturnine and hypochondriacal, never left home without his oxygen inhaler and his health foods ("Vair is my kelp?" he once demanded of a bewildered porter), but was a first-class action-film director (The Jungle Book, Sahara). Vincent, Author Michael Korda's father, was an art director who could do the spectacular on a shoestring but never abandoned his bohemian ways. At the height of his career he sometimes wore Alex's hand-me-down suits without bothering to get them altered...
...neither his father nor Uncle Zoli exerted the claim on Author Korda's youthful imagination that the Imperial Alex did. Hence, Charmed Lives is both informal biography and personal memoir, taking on emotional urgency as Nephew Korda recounts his efforts not to imitate his inimitable uncle. Eventually Michael did find his own style and substance as editor in chief of Simon & Schuster and writer of the bestselling pop studies Power! and Success...
...took its time getting to Boston from its London debut four years age, and it really wasn't worth the wait. A play about loose morals in high places may have been timely back then, but today Stoppard's collection of panty humor just seems a trifle, something the author tossed off between cigarettes. The play is already showing its age, and it has not weathered the trans-Atlantic voyage that well...
...Found-Land, Stoppard's play-within-a-play, both the author and the performers are in better form. New-Found-Land is in some ways even more of a trifle than Dirty Linen--it's essentially two monologues, one delivered by a senile minister about his youthful meeting with Lloyd George, the other by a young civil servant about his dreams of America. John Straub as Bernard, the codger, steals the show with simple, somnolent nods of his head--a note of comic understatement other members of BARC could learn from...
BETWEEN DIRTY LINEN and New-Found-Land, Stoppard has managed to fill out an evening of theater, even to make it entertaining. But there's so much more to expect from the author of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. It's a bit sad to see a man who challenged Shakespeare to verbal duels wasting his time pulling blue panties out of his characters' pockets...