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...studio born: his father Eliot is chairman of the board of Warner Bros.-Seven Arts. Married to an English girl, Ken Hyman is a relaxed Anglophile who openly wishes his work would allow him to live in London. As a compromise of sorts, he had his script-cluttered Hollywood office decorated in dark-paneled English-club style. Hyman first earned his stars as an independent producer in 1965 with The Hill, an acerbic antiwar film that starred Sean Connery in one of his few impressive non-Bond roles. Hyman moved up to the big time with The Dirty Dozen...
...Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences threw in its sordid lot with the apostles of non-violence last night, naming In the Heat of the Night best picture, its star Rod Steiger best actor, and Sterling Silliphant's script best original screenplay. The chief victim of the backlash was Bonnie and Clyde, which for the sensitive members of the Academy conjured up visions of Stokely Carmichael and H. Rap Brown...
CARTER: PIANO CONCERTO (RCA Victor). Unlike many of his contemporaries, Elliott Carter writes music for standard instruments, eschewing electronic effects and aleatory experiments. What's more, he even provides a dramatic script for this concerto. An individual (the piano) is influenced by society (the orchestra), learns that it is being misled, and ends up alienated and alone. Piano and orchestra converse in different chords like different dialects and at different tempos; swatches of sound appear in what seem desultory then frantic patterns; and at times the script calls for practically the whole Boston Symphony to damp down the valiant...
Lurching from line to line, Steiger frequently ad-libbed his way through entire scenes-including most of a boozy encounter with Sidney Poitier in the sheriff's house. When the occasion calls for it, Steiger can stick to a script. In The Mark he played a psychiatrist and did not change a line-but improvised in other ways. Drawing on his five years of treatment in New York, he remembered two characteristics of his own analyst: "He had too many patients, and he was always exhausted." Steiger made the psychiatrist a chainsmoking, unshaven, love-haunted man -none of which...
While the script's vagueness could have been eliminated, perhaps the production's lack of technical proficiency was unavoidable. A house show cannot possibly have the financial resources necessary to supply all the special effects a science-fiction entertainment requires. Rarely do we find projects such as The Invention of Morel on any stage, partly at least because the cost of doing them right is prohibitive...