We shared a feeling that writing about The Fugitive Kind was a date with destiny.
Although Kim Stanley’s big-screen appearances were rare—four major film roles, plus the uncredited narration in To Kill a Mockingbird—she was the leading lady of television drama’s “Golden Age.”
More than any actor I’ve seen on stage or screen, John Malkovich communicates the essential ambiguity of the character.
A theater-critic friend of my father once said that Laurence Olivier played American like it was a character choice.
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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