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Show t T Y I he Sail jkf I Mutiilas, laiiuari 27, ntiuiif, HI I'lWi Actress chained to a sanitized Heilman Frank Hu My Vot Ni-- k Tinu-- s h VS The script s author is William Luce, who has fashioned 'Lillian'1 from the three major Heilman memAn I n) i msh Homan oirs riler Tht-rNKW VOHK are few, i! any. more startling .sights in a New Yoik theater right now than the one that opens ' Lillian.'' the new play at the Barrymore As the c urtain rises, we are confronted by an eerie reincarnation of the writer Lillian Heilman complete with wavy blondish hair, elegant gray suit, pearl necklace, mountainous nose, lighted cigarette and, most unsettling of all, a fierce smile that seems more an invitation to hostilities than an offering of warmth. Makeup, of course, can do wonders, but so can a fine actress. Zoe Caldwell, one of the more estimable actresses around, has surely captured the seething physical presence of Heilman, a woman whose volatile political and personal battles were inseparable from her careers as playwright, screen writer and memoirist. I'entimenlo and Sioninlicl Time If Heilman's own accounts of her life sometimes glossed over crucial areas, Luce s adaptation has gone Unoriginal texts one better Heilman's controversial attacks on fellow liberals with whom she parted ways have been eliminated here, as have her scathing portraits of friendly witnesses before the House Activities Committee. Even her remarks about catty Tallulah Bankhead are judiciously toned down in ''Lillian." The result is a play that casts its subject in an even more roseate glow than the film "Julia" (which was adapted from a chapter of Ientimento). While Luce's Lillian admits to flaws, her flaws are never as grave as those of her antagonists' and her anger is always in the cause of right. Attacks Eliminated Photo Press Newsfeotures Associated niht Elvin Bishops guitar gets better with age PARK CITY playing electric bass, and drummer Mark Chaney (the latter three musicians based locally in Salt cenzo By John Paul Brophy For The Salt Lake Tribune Some things get better with age, and Elvin Bishop's guitar playing is surely one of them. Elvin packed the Rusty Nail Saloon here Saturday night with over 300 fans, a fitting finale to a four-nigstand that started with two dates at the Zephyr Club in Salt Lake City and an evening at the Cactus Club in Logan before ending up at this fine hall. Bishop brought from San Francisco his two excellent accompanists, tenor saxman Terry Hancks and guitarist Stevie Gurr, building the friend rhythm section with long-timRick Welter on guitar, Mike DeVin- e Concert Review Lake City). The sextet sizzled until the wee hours with a tight blend of rhythm and blues and rock and roll that insured a crowded dance floor the entire evening. Two long sets gave plenty of opportunity to hear one of the guitar greats show just how he has matured over the last 20 years. Starting off with a fine Earl Hooker slide guitar instrumental and followed by a great ver sion of "Honest I Do," Elvin gave his a work-ou- t red Gibson hollow-bod- y with a display that included many of his hits from the '70s Sure Feels Rock My Good," Travelin Shoes, and "Struttin' Soul, My Stuff. Hancks saxophone touches strong melody lines in the Junior Walker added much to the ensemble, vein especially on his own composition Good, Good Rockin where he also cut loose with a first-rat- e vocal. Gurr showed his guitar prowess throughout the night, ably backing Bishops ringing melodies and stepping out with a few excellent solos of his own, including some exciting ventures on harp on a couple of songs. In spite of a broken foot, Elvin coming Let's Get Harry r The feature, which also stars Robert Duvall, rock star Glenn Frey and Mark Harmon, finished shooting in Mexico earlier this month and from the way Busey describes it, "shooting is an especially appropriate description. He and Duvall, et al, were required to learn how to handle a full arsenal of weapons, including machine guns, for the saga about a group of Illinois blue-collworkers who journey to Central America to rescue a friend who is inadvertently kidnapped with a U.S. diplomat. vioBusey defends the "Harry lence as necessary and survivalistic. that's life," he adds. Violence We were in Mexico when the U.S. narcotics officers were massacred. A couple of our Mexican crew members were and robbed on the street one night." There was also the night a Communist group staged a demonstration where the film troupe was trying to shoot. "They had a small crowd; they had banners; they had an old Chevy with a loudspeaker mounted on top. According to Gary, the film team Tri-Sta- d did manage to get its shots anyway. Then everyone started to leave. The strange part was that the Communists' car broke down, and finally a couple of our crew guys went over and gave them a jump start. A LOST LOVER: Richard Chamberlain has decided he doesnt want to be Casanova. And that leaves the future of the ABC Circle Films TV movie in limbo. Producer David Manson tells me he is talking to sevn eral actors about taking on the role of the legendary lover, but network sources say that as things now stand the project has been placed "on a back burner. For the record, Richard never did commit to Casanova," though he did show initial interest in the project. And ABC had said that with him Casanova was a definite go. FEVER PITCH. Tom Selleck, who turns 41 on Wednesday, won't celebrate the occasion here in L.A. with his parents as planned. He's rooted in Hawaii where hes going from work to bed. 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EXCLUOING up tempests for almost !.,e deludes on die public stage In Lillian the unfinished woman who wjs Lillian Heilman has been given the polished linisii that obscures as min h as it gloMs theatresW Cluxury walk-iECONOMY SEATING First Half Hour Only SO ALL DAY TUESDAY 1 "TROLL" tlMIS H'Ot'ita OF Fantasy. ffvUiSilfiilriHiE IRON EAGLE (PG-13- ) 00, 3 15, 5.50, 8:00, 10:05 '101 DALMATIANS" -- os While GO: BACK TO THE FUTURE" (PG) 2 00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 The Color Purple' la the year a beat film! (4 rating). 4x5; EASY EASY COME, & STATE'MURRAY AGAIN; Eric Preminger is on the promotional trail for the new paperback edition of his Gypsy and Me book, hes working on his second literary endeavor. 1 767 9424 6216 1 wri3 YOU CAN'T GO HOME Elton John and wife Renate are takuntil ing off for a holiday in Kenya things are cooking at home again. He was planning to stay at his London of his home between the wind-u- p United Kingdom tour in December and the beginning of his European trip March 1 in Madrid, but the remodeling of the kitchen made the manse such a mess that Elton and Renate found themselves roughing it" in a nearby hotel. Sun EX It's entitled An American Fantasy and, according to the son of director Otto Preminger and the late Gypsy Rose Lee, will explain how he was able, in only seven years, to go through an inheritance of $750,000 left him by his mother. It was easy, says Eric. I spent most of it on women and what was left over on drugs and analysis." Most of all, he says, An American Fantasy is the story of the 70s, when all things were possible or so we thought." For Eric, who didnt learn until age 17 that Otto Preminger was his father, they were turbulent years indeed. His mother died in 1976; shortly afterwards, my father adopted me and suddenly I was Eric Preminger with a whole new world open to me. He says his ex- ploits through that new world as a man coming to terms with his sexuality in an era of womens liberation will be told in detail in An American to move Magnum away from its fearsome Cosby Show competition, rr 'l' 4!W ATiOhUN of next season, and at this point he sounds as if hes not anxious to sign on for another stint if, indeed, CBS does decide to renew the show. He tells me the network keeps promising stmed Hell-man- Star says Lets Get Harry may raise eyebrows HOLLYWOOD Gary Busey says he won't be surprised if theres some yelling" about the violence in his up- the vinegary rebel tii'ii- - Midi nii-- wlio symbiotic black-and-whi- stand ends at the Rusty Nail Saloon 1-- Heilman's upper-middle-cla- n st tape-recorde- relationships with black female servants, and, more frivolously, anecdotes involving Lee Shubert, Irving Thalberg, Norma Shearer and Dorothy Parker Rather harder to take are the lengthy tributes to Dash. who. for all his cited drinking and womanizing, still emerges as an impossibly saintly paragon of artistic and moral Heilman partisans will enjoy this rectitude. opportunity to worship at the shrine. Deft Stitehingm Heilman's detractors will probably be reduced to apoplexy. (Were her Although the play's hospital frammost vociferous literary opponents to ing device is hokey, Luce has deftly stitched together the fragments from see "Lillian" en masse, Broadway his already elliptical source materiin first riot have its ) might years Nonpartisan theatergoers will find a al. In the process, were reminded moderately engaging tour of the Hell-ma- n that Heilmans best prose attained an eloquence and lilt often lacking in her saga that, in the style of its heroine's books, covers her theatrical melodramas. The fluency upbringing in of Luces anthology is matched by Robert Whitehead's staging, which New Orleans and New York, the development of her social conscience, unfolds on a sparsely furnished set (by Ben Edwards) suither encounters with Hollywood vula for able late Beckett play. The only Dash. and As with herhfe in garity the memoirs, her Broadway career is real lapses in the direction are the incidental music and lighting, which only cursorily recalled. occasionally hammer in the monologues shifts of mood or time frame. Even when she is turning into mush over bucolic rural domesticity with Dash or laying on the braggadocio a bit thickly, Miss Caldwell is invigorating to watch. Her voice, however, is not always on s pitch. The actresss rendition of deep, wheezy vocal register Bishop managed to give a fairly enerhas an Anglian tinge, reminiscent of getic performance, matching his inTammy Grimes. The disparate charstrumental work with those whiskey-tinge- d acters that Lillian briefly impersonvocals that make tunes like ates whether her father or wet "Oklahoma Country Girl and Little nurse, Dash or Joseph McCarthy often sound roughly alike. One also Brown Bird" so endearing. Harmony feels that some of Miss Caldwell's vocals from Gurr, Hancks, and Welposes, particularly those revealing ter, while not quite studio quality, her in profile with crooked arm and were still an entertaining addition. tilted cigarette, suggest an icon posWelter, DeVincenzo, and Chaney ing for a book jacket rather than a certainly performed better than a person drawn from life. mere pick-up- " band, making for a Considerable Achievement fine rhythm unit. Speaking of addiBut the stars achievement is still tions, Bruce Willis of televisions hit considerable. If her performance in the was program Moonlighting ascends from a first-rat- e audience and was called up to display only rarely impersonation to a compelling charsome excellent blues harmonica acterization, thats because too many chops on "Dont You Lie to Me to pieces are missing from the story to bring the spirited show to a close. allow the role to add up. Its hard to reconcile the rather sugary, only slightly curmudgeonly figure pre- - The trouble with ' Lillian is that Miss Caldwell, having presented us at the start with that incredible image, is not always given the means to explore and enhance it. Intense as her energy and concentration are, the star is chained to a sanitized Heilman portrait that, like all bowdlerized official biographies, lacks the conflict and depth essential to create a dramatic or psychologically gripping character. Miss Caldwell describes some highly charged events she addresses us from the hospital where lover of 30 years, Lillians Dashiell Hammett, is dying in 1961 but we usually observe her impressive solo turn from a slight emotional remove. Actress Zoe Caldwell portrays Lillian Heilman, celebrated playwright, author and social critic, in new Broadway play. EjmIv the evenings high (Hunt amirs lute in Act 11 is the greatest scene u Heilman career in real life or the theater This is hei apjieurance belme IH'AC, aeennipa nied by the reading of her defiant let ter in which she refuses to r ut tier conscience "to fit this year's fash ions " Miss Caldwell faces her unseen inquisitors from a tense, sealed posi tion, with voices creating the ghosts of the 1952 Washington hearing room Her words remain a stirring expression of bravery and integrity during a time of witch hunts Some of the other livelier interludes in "Lillian" include the accounts of both the young and middle-agewhich MS DOME 9 00 4 VO 4 H WIV M.4 039 JAGGED EDGE" (R HEAD OFFICE" (BROADWAYi 50. 8 OO E. IDO So. 65 C 3rd So 364 7641 JUNGLE WARRIORS 3 OO. e 10. 9 49 HEAD OFFICE 4 260 5 15. 7 15, 9 15 (R) MY OTHER HUSBAND NOW PLAYING EXCLUSIVELY AT THE UTAH THEATRE! CHECK THEATRE GUIDE FOR SHOWTIMES qUA mint! |
