Word: colbert
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Dates: during 1981-1981
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Nadine S. Colbert...
...evening's only resuscitative presence is Claudette Colbert. At 78, she seems to have discovered the elixir of agelessness. Her looks are unflawed and her low come-hither voice purrs with enchantment. The precision of Colbert's timing would make a watch blush. Her role is that of a hugely successful writer of mystery thrillers and the owner of $15 million worth of paintings. In one wall is a camouflaged walk-in vault that can snap to and be drained of oxygen in 17 seconds. Don't bet that it won't be used...
Owing to a variety of ailments, the Colbert character zips about the place in a motorized wheelchair. She also slogs down brandy, smokes cigars, plants electronic bugs and starts wastebasket fires in absent-minded moments...
Apart from the vault, the plot machinations include blunt instruments, arson and grotesque fright masks, but none of these prove either droll or scarifying. In the end, the old lady still rules her roost, but Claudette Colbert, alas, falls victim to the play. -By T.E. Kalem
...songs. On a good night, Broadway will have more stars than there are in Hollywood. Elizabeth Taylor spent the summer in town with The Little Foxes, and this fall a quartet of grandes dames will lend their incandescence to the stage: Katharine Hepburn in The West Side Waltz, Claudette Colbert in A Talent for Murder, Anne Bancroft in Duet for One, Joanne Woodward as Shaw's Candida. And then, and always, there are the musicals. At least 16 have been announced, including one potential gem that begins previews next week: Stephen Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along, directed...