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Music Story August 26, 1999
"...The well-designed booklet seems to take great pains to avoid discussing the origin of these recordings from Caedmon or the other sources, much less offer a list of the actors participating. That's a shame, because not only do Finney and Bloom star within, so too do Edith Evans, Alec Guinness, Vanessa Redgrave, Ian Holm, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, John Gielgud, Orson Welles, Judith Anderson, and many others whose dedication to the art of theatre gave contemporary shape to 400-year-old words...."
The Summer Revival Spirit
Screens Story June 12, 1998
"...Albert Finney is the "incorrigible hero" Tom Jones, the bastard son of servants who is raised as a gentleman by his parents' employers. Tom is an earnest, amorous, and devilish young lad who is urged by his stuffy superiors to become serious and to pray, "something," they tell him, "for which you have scant relish." Look Back in Anger playwright John Osborne adapted the Henry Fielding novel for the screen and Tony Richardson directed with verve the clever ensemble cast consisting of Hugh Griffith, Susannnah York, Edith Evans, and Joan Greenwood as the wicked wench Molly, who "never felt that one man was quite as good as two." (PAR: 6/25-26) - Claiborne Smith..."
Postscripts
Books Column May 15, 1998
by Clay Smith
"...John Graves let the rhythm of his words speak for themselves, really. His reading was reminiscent of something Kenneth Tynan wrote about Edith Evans in 1956: "How she looks runs second to how she sounds: it is in the ear of memory that she chiefly lingers......"
Acting on Impulse
Screens Story November 17, 1995
"...What drove me back out was Crawford. Only rarely does someone with such a
profound and stunning lack of talent land a lead role in a major studio film.
Crawford is wooden and unexpressive, her speech as flat as the Llano Estacado.
Next to her, Lauren Hutton is Dame Edith Evans...."
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