• Kenneth Peacock Tynan (2 April 1927 – 26 July 1980) was an English theatre critic and writer. Initially making his mark as a critic at The Observer, he...
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    college football player Kenneth Tynan (1927–1980), English theatre critic and writer Kenneth Vance, American politician Kenneth N. Waltz (1924–2013), American...
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  • drama film directed by Roman Polanski, and co-written by Polanski and Kenneth Tynan. A film adaptation of William Shakespeare's tragedy of the same name...
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    Praise of Hardcore (2005), a drama about the critic and impresario Kenneth Tynan. In television work, he voiced Valmont in seasons 1 and 2 of Jackie...
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  • avant-garde, risqué theatrical revue created by British drama critic Kenneth Tynan. The show, consisting of sketches on sex-related topics, debuted Off-Broadway...
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    Officer Television film 2003 The Private Life of Samuel Pepys Balty 2005 Kenneth Tynan: In Praise of Hardcore Mike 2005 Murphy's Law Scott Garvey Episode:...
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    film critic Kenneth Tynan angered them when he suggested that Leigh's was a mediocre talent that forced Olivier to compromise his own. Tynan's diatribe almost...
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  • theatre critic Kenneth Tynan (1927–80). She had previously been married to Oliver Gates; that marriage ended in divorce. Kenneth Tynan was married when...
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    in 1964. He was called "the natural successor to Olivier" by critic Kenneth Tynan. Burton's perceived failure to live up to those expectations disappointed...
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    A few months after their marriage, Alan Bennett remarked wryly to Kenneth Tynan that Plummer was "his own worst enemy—but only just," while Plummer's...
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  • United Kingdom until 1964. Golding himself supported the film. When Kenneth Tynan was a script editor for Ealing Studios he commissioned a script of Lord...
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  • she was named a Jazz Master by the National Endowment for the Arts. Kenneth Tynan, who wrote liner notes for Ross, called her "a fallen angel" who "moves...
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    serious roles. He portrayed controversial theatre critic Kenneth Tynan in the BBC Four film Kenneth Tynan: In Praise of Hardcore (2005), opposite Julian Sands...
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    (1971) in which she performs the sleepwalking soliloquy nude. The critic Kenneth Tynan was present when the scene was shot: "Francesca does it very sportingly...
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    time of production reviews of Look Back in Anger were deeply negative. Kenneth Tynan and Harold Hobson were among the few critics to praise it, and they...
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  • the discussion during which Kenneth Tynan became the first person to say "fuck" on British television (Robinson told Tynan that this was "an easy way to...
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    in opposition to the "well-made play", the kind which theatre critic Kenneth Tynan once denounced as being set in "Loamshire", of dramatists like Terence...
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    sensation. This was helped in large part by a favourable review by Kenneth Tynan. In 1962, the show transferred to the John Golden Theatre in New York...
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    2005 Last of the Boys Chicago, Steppenwolf Theatre 2005 Orson's Shadow Kenneth Tynan Off-Broadway, Barrow Street Theatre 2005 The Pain and the Itch Cash...
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  • Crist wrote about the film, "The guignol is about as grand as it gets." Kenneth Tynan asserted that "(Davis) has done nothing better since The Little Foxes...
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    Carl Reiner) and Mel Brooks performed, and it was later recalled by Kenneth Tynan. Reiner played the straight-man interviewer and set Brooks up as anything...
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    Times. 8 June 1955. p. 8. Tynan, Kenneth (12 June 1955). "Fate and Furies". The Observer. p. 6. Holden 1988, p. 298. Tynan, Kenneth (21 August 1955). "Chamber...
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    performed in a BBC radio play. In 1950, she met the theater critic Kenneth Tynan, and two weeks later, they began living together. They married on January...
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    blacks, he represented us. It was a moment of great pride." In 1947, Kenneth Tynan saw Frederick Valk and Donald Wolfit play Othello and Iago respectively...
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    restricted period of theatre that had preceded them. Theatre critic Kenneth Tynan, whilst working with Laurence Olivier as literary manager and Dramaturg...
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    which she performs the sleepwalking soliloquy in the nude. The critic Kenneth Tynan was present when the scene was shot: Francesca does it very sportingly...
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  • "The Duchess Theatre, London", Thisistheatre.com, accessed 2 May 2020 Tynan, Kenneth, The Diaries of Kenneth Tynan, A&C Black (2002), p. 76, footnote 1...
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    had been relaxed and the sexuality could have been more explicit. For Kenneth Tynan, Emily "failed to get to first base" in his realm of eroticism. Variety...
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  • Practice – Hustling. With Nicholas Luard. London: Arthur Barker, 1964. Kenneth Tynan Mark Birley Lady Annabel Goldsmith The Independent Obituary of Nicholas...
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    fuck on live British television has been attributed to theatre critic Kenneth Tynan in 1965, though it has been claimed Irish playwright Brendan Behan used...
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