The Stage: Tennessee's Waltz

...The is contrite...

...It's the old one-two A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur, which was first performed punch...

...Next she tries a one- Laura, alone, illuminated by the candles which, for all night stand with a soldier, and then a long-range relationship that they are the...

...the play ends in darkness...

...Afterwards, she sends the doctor away forever the starkest picture of loneliness in the Williams canon...

...At the end of the film, when the wifemistress drives from her bed the young doctor ALFRED Hitchcock used to say that he put icy blondes in whom she has seduced and made to fall in love with her, what his films because behind that cold exterior, they were she becomes is a belle dame sans merci...

...whether lyre:, victims or comic grotesques, beset by violence We get the message, too...

...he shuffles forward, a broken man-a man who has popularity of this notion even inspired a producer of porn to finally met his match, his "equal," in a woman...

...No matter Screen how toxic the chemicals, this little bug finds a way to adapt, I survive, and even thrive on them...

...Making his rounds of the province, she also discovers that he had a mistress at every stop...

...It's about a woman (Laura Antonnelli) in a small town in COLIN L. WESTERBECK, JR...

...But when he is falsely accused of murder and has to go into hiding even from her, she TENNESSEE'S WALTZ bestirs herself...

...The specter of separateness haunts them too, but, ing that even though he can't hear her, he gets the message...

...It is that Wifemistress has been a or desperation or plain indifference, they manage a kind of movie about-surprise!-women's liberation...

...She's just a new tion at the Hudson Guild, presumably-like its charactersvariation on the old theme of the mother/whore...

...This is another vitality which insists that they try to escape, to outsmart, to nice fantasy, just like Hitchcock's blondes...

...Laura blows out the candles...

...Wifemistress, defeated as he seems...

...Who'd have thunk it...

...But don't I take a shot at legit audiences a few years ago with an adaptation detect a subtle glint in his eye which suggests that he's not as of the underground Victorian classic, The Flea...

...A nice fantasy...

...A lot a "equal" really means here...

...that her husband is hiding within view of their home, she The quiet, almost sentimental quality of that final speech, of brings the doctor there so that her husband will have to watch the play as a whole, masks the fact that Menagerie ends with them together...

...Finding his pornog- THE FINAL IMAGE in The Glass Menagerie is that of raphy collection, she tries masturbation...

...She leaves her bed and takes up the family FAMILIAR WILLIAMS THEMES business obligations...

...Now that Vicario's heroine has current films about the women of the past, especially Victorian behaved as badly as her husband did, she is ready to take him women, make a similar assumption...

...That's what Wifemistress does...

...She even sleeps with a couple of her light," will bring no warmth to the girl...

...And in the end, having discovered speech...

...The truth is that they women in the most repressive, prudish societies who, this deserve each other...

...At the point when the women's movement finally tells men MALE OF THE SPECIES to screw off, a movie life Wifemistress will still have the last WIFEMISTRESS, MOTHERWHORE word: "I love it when you talk dirty...

...Certain ideas which men have about women seem to Bodey, regularly goes with her twin brother for Sunday picbe as tenacious as one of those strains of potato bug that proves nics...

...It turns liberation into mere libertinism...

...It was the bourgeois back, and he is ready to come back...

...Williams has always been partial to that kind of playful Commonweal: 146...

...equality of the sexes is really all about...

...Now we're equal," she says softly, know- them...

...liberated woman...

...This is the beginning of her own sexual education...

...Tom finishes his last husband's old mistresses...

...I suspect that he is actually a familiar a new film from Italy by director Marco Vicario, is the latest figure, the male submissive who approaches his dominatrix addition to this genre...

...Gentleman Caller's "favorite kind of with a young doctor...

...First Wifemistress Now, almost thirty-five years after Laura's disappearance recreates the past in the image of the present, as a society of into darkness, Williams is back with a quartet of women swingers, and then it suggests that such a society is what coping with or succumbing to the perennial Williams problem...

...The Creve Coeur of the other hand, she's also some kind of closet feminist...

...His demeanor as he approaches the house current wisdom goes, were most gloriously over-sexed...

...She relinquishes the . administration of her estates to her husband (Marcello Stage Mastroianni), who spends most of his time away from home touring the province on business...

...But on the looking for a more permanent home...

...Italy around the turn of the century who is so repressed that she is a hypochondriac unable to leave her bed...

...On the one hand, the wifemistress can play a role in-the at the Spoleto Festival USA last year, is in a showcase producsame wet dream where the icy blonde is a star...

...It turns out that a smother the loneliness that Williams sees as central to the Victorian wife with a secret life was really a forerunner of the human condition...

...That's what being the most erotic of all women...

...this is the title is not simply the heartbreak of Dorothea, the leading sort of thinking that fakes the women's movement right out of character but an amusement park to which her roommate, its socks...

...The and stands defiantly in the bedroom window where her hus- heroines who follow tend to have more Amanda than Laura in band can see her...

...and anticipates the customary mock humiliation...