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When Zaks began casting, he believed revivals require stars -- "but after I heard 'I don't think so' a couple of times, I changed my mind." Instead he created a star of his own, choosing Prince as Adelaide, the shopworn showgirl who has been Nathan's forlorn fiance for the past 14 years. She has been building a reputation among insiders since her Tony-nominated turns in Jerome Robbins' Broadway. In the off-Broadway original of Falsettos, now the best new Broadway musical, her portrayal of a middle-class mother abandoned by her husband for another man was compassionate, heartbreaking...
...Hollywood: either they're laughed off or they're bumped off. PBS'S AMERICAN MASTERS series makes a case for respect this week with Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey, a lovely tribute to a Hollywood survivor. Salt had penned several successful films in the 1930s and '40s (The Shopworn Angel) when he was forced into exile by the blacklist. The script assignments eventually returned, but his talent didn't: his name first reappeared on dogs like Taras Bulba. But Salt made a comeback with his powerful screenplay for Midnight Cowboy, followed by Serpico and Coming Home. Nice work, nice...
...common fate of playwrights to flower early, then fade from fashion long before they die and spend decades enduring agonizing public reappraisal of their early triumphs. That has been Miller's lot in the U.S., where commercial producers mostly write him off as a shopworn social reformer. In Britain Mt. Morgan is his 13th play to be seen in the West End in the past dozen years. Moreover, British critics and audiences accept him as the poetic expressionist he sees in himself, rather than the earnest realist that U.S. productions relentlessly turn him into. "In London," he says, "audiences...
...movie Wall Street and a shelf of recent nonfiction, not to mention such Eisenhower-era cautionary tales as The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit. Katz's prose is competent, his dialogue serviceable and his cast of characters large and mostly faceless (although its obsessives stand out: a shopworn survivor of the executive-suite wars; a by-hook-or-by-crook booker of talk-show interviewees; and a tough, moralistic accountant...
...slanderous attack on me and the Steering Committee has distressing implications for broader perceptions of Catholicism at Harvard. I hope that Lai has not succeeded in awakening anti-Catholic sentiment by invoking dated and shopworn stereotypes of Catholic students as "hav[ing] swallowed whole the dogmatic and hierarchical stance" of the Church...