Word: gossipers
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...subjects the paper tended to neglect in the past. The lower left-hand corner is reserved for short, sprightly yarns; one last week cheekily examined the rich man's version of the box radios so popular with street people. The new page even has a rather tepid corporate gossip column called "Shop Talk" (who is on the fast track at General Motors and similar tidbits). Despite a year's preparation, the first week of the second front did not give readers a clear idea of what kinds of stories to expect...
...agitation and propaganda point), which is festooned with slogans and piled high with party literature. But when local residents stop in to study the bulletin board and ask questions of the official on duty, the chances are they are interested in new regulations that might affect their lives or gossip about apartments about to become available...
Coatless, tieless and triumphantly clutching his Best Actor Oscar, Dustin Hoffman could not resist a post-award press conference zinger at TV gossip Rona Barrett, who had dismissed Best Movie Kramer vs. Kramer as so much soap suds. Said he, spotting Barrett in the press crush: "Well, the soap opera won." Kramer swept five major prizes in the 52nd Academy Awards show. "I'm trying to hear the question over my heartbeat," cooed Meryl Streep, Best Supporting Actress as Ms. Kramer. Complimented on her Trigère gown, Streep, who is Mrs. Don Gummer in real life, blushingly swept...
...taken great liberties with the play--the plot is so tightly constructed that it survives. Horror after horror piles up and our interest never flags. Nevertheless, we don't believe in what happens. Bendheim's is the only performance approaching credibility. By removing The Duchess of Malfi from a gossip-ridden palace and situating it in the dark recesses of the mind, Shiels and Raymond have made the tragedy more ghastly, the villains more sinister, but both less convincing. The directors have reduced Webster's tragedy to melodrama--enjoyable, fast-paced but cardboard. A tragedy should make us suffer vicariously...
...CURTAIN RISES and reveals an opulent set: the pool behind a sprawling Riviera mansion. The characters include the host, a Grand Old Man of English Letters, and his guest, the fashionable, wealthy, titled, or ornamental, who gossip and munch on scones. As the drama begins, it reveals a game of ambitious, but subtle, manipulation which some characters play at a leisurely pace, others with greater determination. Curiously, as the intrigue unfolds, the audience begins to recognize itself on stage. In horror, or delight, spectators watch the dissection of the characters' worst sides--their own. The Grand...