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...voice, was never Lancelot; and King Pellinore becomes a chattering burden in the court and Morgan le Fay a darting disaster in the forest. Richard Burton, playing Arthur with a touch of inwardness beyond the call of musicomedy duty, alone ever seems three-dimensional-which only stresses how pasteboard are all the others and un-Arthurian is everything else...
Novelist Douglas himself dismissed his ludicrous situations and pasteboard characters as "tiresomely decent," and moviegoers might have been spared this whole hodgepodge had the author lived. The year he finished Fisherman, he said: "I'm just an irascible old man who has written a book and wants it to stay a book! I don't want the movies fumbling with it. It's too much for the movies...
...Heir Huntington Hartford's stage adaptation is Jane Eyre virtually without Jane, and chunks of the story with no hint of the storytelling. Everything stagiest about the book-the gruffly romantic hero, the pasteboard aristocrats, the burning of Thornfield, the blinding of Rochester-has been transferred to the stage; what results, not unnaturally, suggests the stage of 1870. Everything personally intense and imaginative has vanished; something crucial-the time element that shapes crises and aids credibility-has been destroyed. For an act, as the emotional furniture is set in place in Designer Ben Edwards' gloomy, fan-vaulted hall...
...school; in the summer she would travel the Negro tournament circuit with the Johnsons. Her family agreed, and Eaton still recalls Althea's arrival at the railroad station in Wilmington: "There she was with Sugar Ray's sax in one hand and in the other an old pasteboard suitcase with two belts tied around it. She was wearing an old skirt; she'd never owned a dress in her life. My wife bought her a few dresses and tried to make her more feminine by getting her straight hair curled and showing her how to use lipstick...
Faye begins his late-hour (11:30 p.m.), Sunday through Thursday inquisition by pointing to a pasteboard morgue and sneering adenoidally: "This is where I bury the people I don't like." As Chicagoans look on with mixed fascination and disgust, he proceeds to poke at the privacy and the professional talents of well-known figures in the popular-music industry, whether they are guests on the show or not. Some typical Faye autopsies: Eddie Fisher "sings with as much animation as a dead fish"; Elvis Presley is "a bouncing orangutan, a musical degenerate"; Tab Hunter's "squeak...