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To essay the role of the brooding, mordantly comic, half-mad prince is to brave comparison with Garrick and Booth, Burton and Olivier. Kline may not yet rank among that pantheon, but he has vaulted over his contemporaries with this production. His performance ripens and changes night by night. It...
DIED. Ray Milland, 79, Welsh-born actor whose intelligent, graceful and urbane professionalism distinguished both dramatic and comedic roles in more than 120 films, including Easy Living (1937), Beau Geste (1939), The Major and the Minor (1942), The Big Clock (1948), Dial M for Murder (1954) and Love Story (1970...
The difficulty is that other people think he is special. As a writer, Bascombe is supposed to be smart and sensitive. But mostly he feels dumb and dreamy, "a state of suspended recognition, and a response to too much useless and complicated factuality." Not a good state for a sportswriter...
Last week the Supreme Court also reinvigorated its 22-year line of decisions upholding the media's First Amendment protections against libel suits. In recent years the court has sometimes seemed more sympathetic to those bringing libel suits, but this time the Justices ruled 5 to 4 that in cases...
Only one story ventures into the supernatural. The endpiece, The Green Road to Quephanda, speaks directly of the plight of the genre writer who cannot get himself taken seriously. The central character is a fantasist who keeps publishing to small sales and critical silence. Unable to bear the inattention any...