Cruel review for Clark Gable’s “A King and Four Queens” in a London paper. It ended with, “Why don’t you act your own age, partner? Be someone’s young graddad for a change.” Ouch, ouch and again ouch.
A related, somewhat, aside: In 1985 I produced a play with Cyd Charisse, who was sixty-three at the time, and stunningly beautiful. One of the newspaper guys covering the performance did not believe her appearance could be real as his mother, who was younger did not look that way. The answer to that mystery came with the snap of a finger. His mother did not look that way at twenty -three. Undoubtedly, the critic, not a handsome guys calling, had some of these same issues.
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Tonya Marinaro
Clark can do whatever he wanted to leave him alone
Barry Lane
Absolutely, Tonya.
A related, somewhat, aside: In 1985 I produced a play with Cyd Charisse, who was sixty-three at the time, and stunningly beautiful. One of the newspaper guys covering the performance did not believe her appearance could be real as his mother, who was younger did not look that way. The answer to that mystery came with the snap of a finger. His mother did not look that way at twenty -three. Undoubtedly, the critic, not a handsome guys calling, had some of these same issues.