Word: diener
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Brynner, the worn adventurer who never comprehends that it is not his reign but its interruptions that grant him stature. With a strange accent that suggests all nations and an abiding virility, Brynner gives the musical its few seconds of truth and vitality. Lest they endure, Joan Diener, as Penelope, always manages to shriek them to a close. In Homer's Odyssey, the goddess Circe changes the hero's shipmates into swine. In this Odyssey the manufacturers have exceeded her feat; they have taken a masterpiece and turned it into...
What else is there to say? The east sings nicely, but we have been such performers as Robert Weede, Joan Diener, and Helen Gallagher (How I love her) in much happier circumstances. This time around, the director has given them so many May time poses to affect that acting is out of the question...