Word: starcrossed
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...Vice President Albert Gore and H. Ross Perot warm up for their big slugfest over the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on "Larry King Live" tonight, it seems an opportune moment to consider the strange political path this starcross'd treaty has taken...
THERE'S plenty of sobbing and sighing in this Romeo and Juliet. The performers seem determined to convince the audience of their genuine emotions in this most well-known and well-worn of tragic love stories. But as the "pair of starcross'd lovers" move through their familiar story on the Hasty Pudding stage, a curious feeling spreads through the theater--that the show is a farcical shadow of Shakespeare's play. The actors try to sink themselves into the pure emotion of the story and pay no attention to the words they...
...Starcross Story (by Diana Morgan) closed after one performance. The reason was not savage reviews-though they were mostly scowling-but a plagiarism suit. Slapped on the producers just before opening night, it charged that British Playwright Morgan had lifted the Starcross story from The Hidden Hero, a novel by Manhattan's Stanley Kauffmann, editor of Ballantine Books...
...play concerns a movie to be made about a heroic expedition that cost Explorer Christian Starcross and his men their lives. At odds over the movie project are Starcross' widow (Eva Le Gallienne) and his former mistress (Mary Astor). Their feuding reveals that Star-cross himself was an unscrupulous egomaniac who had knowingly set forth on a phony quest. But his devoted widow insists that the movie be made anyhow -arguing that, in an era of despair, a heroic legend born of a lie counts for more than the actual truth...
...play was written, it was hard to know whether this final credo was merely Lady Starcross' or was Playwright Morgan's own. But it was hard to care much, for even at its best, when its two stars were effectively defiant or hysterical, the play had only a stagy force. For the most part, it was loaded with exposition and limp from reminiscence; nor would the suspicion down that Starcross was no less a bore than he was a fake...
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