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...amazing thing is he writes for television. Admittedly the BBC, but nevertheless television. It hasn't harmed Harold Pinter. The techniques he uses in TV plays--single sets, detailed direction in the text, careful use of props a camera can highlight, dialogue better suited to facial expression and subtle bodily movement than to sweeping action--have carried over into his longer plays like The Caretaker to produce a fascinating televisionary theatre...
Maeve Kinkead plays Helen, one of the Countess's ladies in waiting and ultimately Bertram's wife. Her voice--an oddly throaty soprano--takes some getting used to, and she occasionally slips into unattractive facial expressions. But she accomplishes her main objective--making Helen's infatuation with Bertram and her long-standing fidelity to him even after he deserts her seem like more than calculated perverseness. One may not see what she sees in her beloved, but one accepts her devotion as genuine and is tempted to condone the questionable strategems she employs to win him back...
When Bus Driver Frank Randazzo spotted a dozen youths beating up a policeman in New York City last summer, he slammed on his brakes, jumped out of the bus to fight the attackers, and suffered assorted facial wounds in the process. Later he spent seven days testifying against two of the youths, who were ultimately convicted of assault. For his trouble, Randazzo had his pay docked $232. Because the fight was in the street rather than on his bus, ruled the City Transit Authority, the law-defending driver was on his own time each and every minute he spent...
...aged kings and prophets. Daniel and Belshazzar both have beards, but they are scraggly and youthful, not long and hoary. The only person whose face fits the drama is the lute player, who has a very full, dark, biblical beard. Furthermore, the singers are not consistent in their facial expressions; some of them never show any expression at all, while others come up with some amateurish miming. When the queen hears the fatal prophecy a worried expression comes over her face, more like a wife who has burned the potatoes than a queen who is about to lose her husband...
...failure of Bay of the Angels is emphasized by the excellent short which preceds it. Lonely Boy, a 15-minute documentary on Paul Anka, displays the singer's world with wild irony. Interviews are shot full in the face, with quick cuts to the hands or facial features to support a verbal point. (Anke's manager: "The boy is great, simply great. We haven't seen such a talent in five hundred years." Anka: "I'm just using the talent I was given to make people happy.") The shots of Anka's performances are superb: a focus on the singer...