Word: nettleton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...soon found that their temperaments didn't mix. Now the story of their stormy relationship will be told in Strangers, opening March 4 on Broadway. "Thompson was a great, great force in American life and, along with Eleanor Roosevelt, the most successful woman in the U.S.," says Lois Nettleton, who will play the challenging role...
...individual ingredients for a bring-down-the-house, Tony-award-winning performance, but they never coalesce into a complex, recognizably human character. Yellen hasn't given him any shading; the role is all in the snappy dialogue with nothing in between the lines. Lewis and Thompson (Lois Nettleton) bicker through an interminable "seduction" scene in her Berlin apartment, fly off to Moscow where he gets drunk and insults the Commies, return to Berlin where he gets drunk and insults her, get married and move to Vermont where she misses her journalism and he can't write, fly back to Europe...
Arvin Brown's production takes its time, shuffling and limping through a theatrical desert. The flaccid blocking and extraordinarily ugly sets place the burden of interest on the two leads. Lois Nettleton gives a conventional performance as Thompson, but within the artificial confines of her role she suggests a human being surprisingly often, her voice choked with pain and confusion, then rising with conviction, bearing the weight of her husband's illness as the character and the actress plow on with the strength and courage of an old trooper...
...look at the fund's real estate mess frightened away Lomas & Nettleton, a Dallas real estate financing company that had been invited in as a comanager. Among the hundreds of obligations are loans to owners of race tracks, jai-alai frontons, boat slips, tennis courts and a $5 million mortgage on Ohio's Cathedral of Tomorrow, whose minister, Sawdust Evangelist Rex Humbard, likes to exhort: "You'd better straighten out and fly right with God." Last year $52 million was on loan to parties-in-interest," meaning institutions or individuals who have business or fiduciary relations with...
...Lois Nettleton, who plays Christina, says she has modeled her own character on Clark Gable, which may be the best clue yet to what All That Glitters is about. Barbara Baxley, the terrifying L.W., says that she didn't need a model. "As an actress, I've been aggressive and independent most of my life." She adds: "The great fun of the show is that Norman has created a whole new world. The cast has discovered that men and women are mutually misunderstood. If this show isn't considered revolutionary -and if people don't understand...