![]() One side represents chaos, the other control the scene determines which side is facing the room. ![]() (A lesser name-dropper would have mentioned the Kennedys.)Ī gifted scoundrel, Paul soon wins over the Kittredges by admiring their two-sided Kandinsky. He claims to be a college friend of their children's who has just been mugged in Central Park and has no one else to turn to, he explains, except the Auchinclosses. Then one day, their inane lives are changed by a young black man, Paul (Will Smith), who arrives at the door with a blood-soaked shirt and an unlikely story. Adept at sipping cocktails and trading brittle ripostes, the Kittredges maintain their lavish lifestyle by selling other people's Matisses for enormous sums. It is inhabited by an art dealer and his wife with the fashionably queer names of Flan (Donald Sutherland) and Ouisa Kittredge (Stockard Channing). The farce, which took place on a bare stage, now opens in a luxurious Fifth Avenue apartment. The rustle in the wings still haunts playwright John Guare's own glib adaptation. Never mind that plays - especially this too-precious gabfest - are born of words, not images. ![]() The play "Six Degrees of Separation" packed theaters in New York and London, was plied with honors on both sides of the Atlantic and inevitably - perhaps even unavoidably - has been converted into a motion picture. ‘Six Degrees of Separation’ (R) By Rita Kempley ![]()
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