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...Rat's Mass by Adrienne Kennedy has a dramatic intensity that Axminster lacks. It is an allegory--a la Theatre of the Absurd--about the corrupting influence of Catholicism, represented by a girl dressed in white, and the evil in modern life, symbolized by a procession of Nazis who troop back and forth behind the set. What saves it from the woodenness of most allegories is the performance of James Spruill as Brother Rat...
Director David Wheeler creates the proper atmosphere of mysticism and terror with eerie noises, a dim stage, and a gilded idol. At times he over- does it--as when he lets the machinegun sounds that close the play and signal the death of Brother and Sister Rat go on and on. For the most part, though, he is in control...
...stayed at the Driskill Hotel [March 18] many times and never been frightened by a mouse in my room as was Bill Moyers-it was a mouse, of course, not a rat. A little old Texas mouse is bigger than a Washington mouse, naturally, but a friendly critter, like the Driskill management and all the rest of Austin...
Harper. As a gum-chewing gumshoe named Harper, Paul Newman stirs awake, forces open his burnt-out baby-blue eyes, and begins to assess the odds against his peace of mind. His Los Angeles office is a rat's nest where the private eye sometimes holes up to sleep. The TV sits humming dumbly through a test pattern that testifies to a restless night. From a wastebasket Harper retrieves some sodden coffee grounds in a filter, brews and glumly drinks a stale, disgusting cupful. Moments later, he roars along the freeway in a rattletrap sports car that...
Worst Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium: to Harlan Ellison, Russell Rouse and Clarence Greene for dunking Richard Sale's crimson novel about the Hollywood prize scramble into a vatful of whitewash. The book described a rat race in which the victors were merely the best of breed. The movie describes a demiparadise besmirched by Stephen Boyd as a vicious nominee ("That rot inside" is his tragic flaw) who forgets that truth and beauty are the Only Real Rewards...