8 picks · 1959–1979
Kenneth Tynan surveys the extraordinary but short-lived career of the film star Louise Brooks, and interviews Brooks herself, a vehement, unself-pitying seventy-one-year-old with perfect recall, who remembers encounters with Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, and G. W. Pabst, the director whose film “Pandora’s Box” made her an enduring legend.
Kenneth Tynan on the comedian, writer, and filmmaker Mel Brooks; the form he found in the comic impromptu duologue; and the belated blossoming of an enormous career.
Kenneth Tynan’s 1978 profile of Johnny Carson. “I once asked a bright young Manhattan journalist whether he could define in a single word what made television different from theatre or cinema. ‘For good or ill,’ he said, ‘Carson.’ ”
Kenneth Tynan visits the playwright behind “Jumpers,” “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead,” and “Dirty Linen.”
PROFILE of actor Sir Ralph Richardson, 74, the eldest of the trio of English actors including Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud. Late last year, he…
PROFILE of British actor Nicol Williamson, noted for his interpretation of Hamlet, in both the stage & film versions. Prime Minister Harold Wilson, …
Lengthy discussion in PROFILE of Valencia, Spain. The falla is an object that is burned & the festival during which this happens. This is during the spring…
Kenneth Tynan reviews plays by Lorraine Hansberry, Tennessee Williams, and Sean O’Casey.