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Juliet is the more acute problem of the two, but on rare occasions a teenage actress has conquered the role. The redoubtable Fanny Kemble began a long Shakespearean career with a triumphant debut as Juliet at 19. Adelaide Neilson made her debut in the part at 17 and became the most popular Juliet of the latter half of the 19th century. And in our own century Phyllis Neilson-Terry started playing the role at 18, to wide acclaim...
Classified files that have been judiciously leaked to the press would seem to indicate that the groundwork for LOVE was laid last summer in response to the high Neilson rating enjoyed by the Senate Watergate hearings. The agency was tentatively dubbed the Government Office of Depravity (GOD), but this was changed in late August for fear of alienating the crucial religious vote in the 1974 elections to the League of Official Vice (LOV). After the Agnew debacle "Extortion" was added to the name to emphasize its inclusion in the new federal program...
PICKING UP ENERGY as his characters, Max von Sydow and Liv Ullmann as Karl-Oscar and Kristina Neilson, took life, Troell detailed the tough choices and sacrifices, the illnesses and griefs that propelled the group to the Promised Land. Despite the ambivalent picture he painted of the passage into Canaan. of the hostile reaction these immigrants of the mid-1840s encountered in America, Troell brought The Emigrants to a climactic affirmation as Karl-Oscar blazed the boundaries of his new farm by the shores of a Minnesota lake...
...Land, filmed simultaneously with The Emigrants, continues the saga of the Neilson family and their encounter with America, but the emphasis has moved from affirmation to a tougher examination of how attainable the dreams that fueled the myth really were, a hard-nosed appraisal that remains sensitive and respectful to the people who dreamed those dreams. Troell presents a lavishly detailed social portrait of the immigrants at work and at rest, lingering over universal moments of human experience--the birth of a child, the marriage of a friend, the death of a neighbor...
Sophomore John Ingard, who reached the semis of last year's New England Tourney and teamed with now-departed Chris Neilson to win a doubles crown, will play number three...