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Willie called busing a "fake issue" that was being pushed by political leaders and community groups. Since 30,000 students were being bused in the Boston area before Judge Garrity ordered busing, he said, transportation in a major urban area is not an important issue...
...search of an author. The redoubtable Richard Attenborough is on hand, as a titled English policeman. He seems willing to exchange barbs with Wayne, if any come to mind, as do Judy Geeson, as a detective, and Mel Ferrer, as the man in charge of the overly complicated fake kidnaping of the hood...
There is no iron to this Iron Age fable. The grimness is fake, the fascination with virginity is a naughty bore, and the monstrous figure of Shardik is cheapened by watery supernaturalism. It is one thing for Kelderek and his primitive fellow tribesmen-a few skeptics to the contrary -to believe the bear is a god, quite another for author and reader to pretend to believe it. This pretense is what Adams insists on, and it smacks of Pan worship, that Victorian silliness in which refined city dwellers pretended that they glimpsed the wicked, goat-footed god as they strolled...
...period piece. And that is exactly how the play is handled in this production--which, thank God, doesn't try to get funny with any embarrassing 20th-century gimmickry. There are plenty of slapstick embellishments, but--from the opening blast of "God Save the Queen" to the fake 19th-century programs, this production remains true to the spirits of Messrs. Gilbert and Sullivan themselves...
...best thing to come out of all this bicentennial nonsense is the report in a recent Art News that the Gilbert Stuart portrait of George Washington (the one Dolly Madison rescued from the British in 1812, now hanging in the East Room of the White House) is probably a fake...