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...that makes us really care for Fonda and Lemmon. It seems almost superfluous to praise Fonda anew, but she is truly at the peak of her talent these days. Nobody has done a better characterization of the vacuity of the TV news "personality" −the little moments of makeup-mirror vanity snatched against deadline pressure, the falseness of on-camera performances that must never really look like performances, the psycho logical confusions of pretending to be a real reporter when you know you've been hired because you've got good bones...
...superb cast lends Taken in Marriage a trace of conviction. There is an aching honesty to Quinlan's Annie as she tries to hold a mirror up to her troubled heart. Streep's alabaster features can convey icy disdain and mock merriment. Her voice is a bed of nails on which she some times lies in self-contempt. As Ruth, Dewhurst was a Rock of Gibraltar. Marchand is better suited to the role, a homebody with artistic impulses who needs a hus band for ballast. Though she has her cranky moments, Wilson's Aunt Helen...
Previous productions broke off after Lulu, imprisoned for murdering Schon, escapes and takes up a fugitive life with Schon's son and other admirers. The third act reveals that Berg rounded off the story with telling symmetry. Lulu descends through a succession of men and social strata that mirror those she rose through in the first two acts. Accordingly, Berg's music for her decline is shot through with echoes, correspondences and recapitulations of earlier moments. When Lulu is reduced to streetwalking in London, Berg called for her three clients to be played by the same singers...
...Distant Mirror, Tuchman...
...Distant Mirror, Tuchman...