Laurence Olivier

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Jane’s World

Mr. Darcy, at last! Keira Knightley does her best Jane Austen in <i>Pride and Prejudice</i>.
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Mr. Darcy, at last! Keira Knightley does her best Jane Austen in Pride and Prejudice.

Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen’s saga of manners and mores in 19th-century England and bad t  read more »

Jane's World

Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen’s saga of manners and mores in 19th-century England and bad timin  read more »

Great Backstage Gossip, But-A Craven Tynan? Never!

I'm glad I caught up with Austin Pendleton's unusual backstage story, Orson's Shadow, which has sett  read more »

Memories of Arthur Miller: Take-Out, TV and Olivier

Perhaps we all felt we knew Arthur Miller, for to know a man's plays is to be on friendly terms with  read more »

Portrait of the Critic as a Spent Man: The Diaries of Kenneth Tynan

What do drama critics do when they're old and gray and clapped out?  read more »

John Osborne's Look Back Has Had Happier Birthdays

Could you name, I wonder, the one play in the history of theater that has a birthday?When was Hamlet  read more »

Peter Bogdanovich's Movie of the Week

Alfred Hitchcock's first American film was originally going to be about the Titanic , but instead, i  read more »

Crazy Eddie's Back! Plunge Goes Down Badly

Is it already a year since I wrote that Eddie Izzard is the funniest man on earth and possibly elsew  read more »