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DIED. JOAN LITTLEWOOD, 87, pioneering director; in London. A 5-ft. 2-in., chain-smoking agent provocateur, Littlewood staged radical theater from her Theatre Workshop in London's East End. She had hoped her plays would attract the working class, but it was chichi West Enders who became her loyal audience for such works as Brendan Behan's The Hostage and the antiwar satire Oh What a Lovely...
...help out with the dishes after dinner. Sometimes it takes a kid to inspire other kids to care--a kid like Will Vinson, 12, whose aluminum-can-recycling crusade lit a fire under the city's next generation. Since he was a nine-year-old fourth-grader at Littlewood Elementary School, Will has united classmates, teachers, recycling firms and other local companies in a bid to rid Gainesville's school grounds of trash and develop youth recycling programs. Says Will: "I knew that if I did it, the other kids would stand...
Next he needed to convince other kids. He wrote entertaining spots for Littlewood's closed-circuit TV program (his slogan: "We love the 3 Rs: reduce, recycle, reuse!"), but at first many students resisted--and threw banana peels and other unsuitable garbage into his recycling bins. "One kid even got sick in one of them," Will recalls. Soon his buddies started to get the message, and the school's Girl Scout, Cub Scout and Boy Scout troops joined in, helping him recycle hundreds of pounds of cans that netted more than $100 for Littlewood's Head Start preschool program...
This is comedy of the funny-peculiar bent, and not so much ensemble as communal. Like Sparrows Can't Sing, Joan Littlewood's delicious pub-crawl farce of the '60s, No Surrender flaunts too many characters, plotlets and reversals of mood but still manages to hold together splendidly. Thank Screenwriter Alan Bleasdale (whose elegy to Elvis Presley, "Are You Lonesome Tonight?", played the West End last year) for the film's wild pungency. He is ably abetted by a cast of vet actors and a few odd-jobbers like Rock Star Elvis Costello, who has a funny turn...
Indefatigable Romantic. Terkel's prime failing is his unwillingness to contradict-or entertain a critical thought -about anyone who was nice enough to spend time with him. He listens rhapsodically as British Director Joan Littlewood says, "I'm sick to death of all these silly old political and social and educational systems which have got in the way of human expression." Not a word from Terkel, wondering whether those systems are not perhaps products of human expression. On the evidence of Talking to Myself, Terkel has rarely sought out people who actually run things. An indefatigable romantic...