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...Yardley mentions one factor which may have contributed to his chronic heavy drinking. He died in 1933, we are told, feeling as though he had not reached his full potential: "When he saw what he had created, he felt cheated; his talent was too limited and so was what it produced," Yardley says. Lardner, despite the encouragement of Fitzgerald and Max Perkins, an editor at Scribner's, never wrote a full-length novel. When he died of tuberculosis at the age of 48, his work had petered out and he was writing purely to make enough money to support...
...play is often cut by one act, at least, and the two-hour Don Juan in Hell segment is sometimes performed alone in concert reading. This full-length production is gloriously fortunate in having in the central role of Tanner an actor who is the pluperfect master of the Shavian rhetoric. At the risk of offending his admirable colleagues in the cast, one must say that it is extremely doubtful if so prodigious an undertaking could have succeeded without an actor of Ian Richardson's scope and power. His voice is like the trumpet of the Lord...
...somehow seemed an unlikely time and place for Jimmy Carter's first full-length speech on Soviet-American relations. Here was the President on what looked for all the world like an old-fashioned barnstorming tour through his native South last week, and here were 500 Southern state legislators in the gardenia-adorned Gaillard Auditorium in Charleston, S.C., all ready for a few lighthearted moments of down-home pleasantries and political good tidings. That same evening the President was off to Yazoo City, Miss., for a "Citizens' Public Meeting" (see following story) and then, the next...
...these points are admirably made, but they click into place a little too neatly. The film has an air of premeditation, an almost palpable sense of the film maker's mordant intelligence shaping the scenes. Of course, if you are a director making your first full-length feature, as Jean-Jacques Annaud is here, this is the kind of flaw to have. It certainly does not prevent Annaud from bringing things to a powerfully ironic finish...
Unfortunately for Raggedy Ann & Andy, nothing else can match the magic of these metamorphoses. Except for its realistic frame, the film is a full-length animated feature. But its format betrays the fact that it started out to be something else: a musical intended as a TV special. When the producers switched to animated film, they made the dubious decision to use the conventions of Broadway staging. Hence solo turns and production numbers are dutifully reproduced cartoon-style. The songs by Joe Raposo, composer of TV's Sesame Street, are deft, pleasant and numerous (16 in all). Songs...