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JUDY: I hardly think that is the way to refer to the music of the famous teutonic composer, Hans Werner Henze, especially when sung by the theremin-toned Rita Streich. Although not up to her performance in Die Zauberflote (Decca DL 9932, monaural, at the Coop), Miss Streich surely improves the score--which could stand as a musical composition by itself, even while it serves Resnais's most specific dramatic intentions...
JAKE: Oh, the drama of it all! From the bottomless pit of my heart, I will urge each and everybody I know to see this lambent, coruscating, sinewy, Proustian, visually exacerbating film. All it needs to be perfect is Rita Tushingham...
GIRL WITH GREEN EYE,S. As a bubbly colleen who chances a fling with a middle-aged author, Britain's Rita Tushingham makes a trite tale seem fresh, poignant, and deliciously funny...
Feeding out the play's entangling plot lines are Sidney Brustein (Gabriel Dell), a disabused idealist who still quivers at the drop of a line from Thoreau, and his wife Iris (Rita Moreno), a would-be Duse who is ready, to stoop to TV commercials. They would rather bicker and brood than curse and make up. In the intervals between their somewhat tiresome spats, the best scenes and acting of the play occur. Top honors go to Alice Ghostley as Iris' proper older sister, an inflated marshmallow of a woman. In one bravura monologue, she tells...
...moment, the lovely, sad, delicate moment of her love--that is eternal in her eyes. And I can scarcely forsee the time when I shall no longer be haunted by Rita Tushingham's eyes' when I no longer see even a little of their sageness in the aspect of anyone I hurt...