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...Touch Not the Cat, Stewart...
Allowing for these limitations, NBC's series, A Tribute to American Theater, makes a highly auspicious debut with Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Dec. 6, 9 p.m. E.S.T.). Laurence Olivier, who is the artistic producer for all of the programs, plays Big Daddy. Maureen Stapleton is Big Mama, Natalie Wood has the role of Maggie the Cat, and Robert Wagner plays Brick, Maggie's sexually abstinent husband and Big Daddy's favorite son. They all give admirably strong and well-defined performances...
Several things work in their favor. Williams' central theme of mendacity has been reinforced by the lies of Watergate and Viet Nam; when Cat first appeared in 1955, it did not seem a parable of growing corruption in U.S. life. Time has also enhanced the understanding of Williams. He is no longer seen as the purveyor of grotesque Southern creatures. Gradually, it has become clear that his true terrain is the violated chambers of the human heart...
...Sleeping Murder, Christie (1 last week) 2-Trinity, Uris (2) 3-Storm Warning, Higgins (4) 4-Slapstick, Vonnegut (3) 5-Blue Skies, No Candy, Greene (6) 6-Dolores, Susann (5) 7-Lovers and Tyrants, Gray (10) 8-Touch Not the Cat, Stewart (7) 9-Ceremony of the Innocent, Caldwell (9) 10-The Users, Haber
...that, the treasures retain the grandeur of mystery too. A wooden head of Tutankhamun, shown as the sun-god emerging from a lotus plant in daily rebirth, stares outward with a gaze that is as candid, guileless-and impenetrably secretive-as a cat's. Nearly every one of the 55 artworks seems a confident invocation of the idea of permanence. "To speak the names of the dead is to make them live again," said the ancient Egyptians. This superb show eloquently illustrates that point...