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>I have found that Shakespeare's plays are marvelous both to
>act and to direct. The texts are polyvalent and a pleasure
>to work with.
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>Brian
I'm going to experience polyvalence upon polyvalence tonight when I go see "A Double Life." It stars Ronald Colman and Shelley Winters and was the first movie Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin wrote for George Cukor. It's part of a film noir series with a double-bill each night, one film set in Los Angeles and the other in New York.
>A Double Life refers to the two existences lived by one Anthony
>John, a versatile leading man on the Broadway of the 1940's. Tony
>John ought to be secure in his fame, but he wants to test it against
>the most demanding material in the actor's canon, Shakespeare's
>major tragedies. He knows that Othello will give him that test, and
>he also knows that his own ego must be strong if he is to survive
>100 nights of the Moor without losing some of his own soul. What he
>does not know is that his Othello will run practically forever...
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