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Stefanie Powers plays Tallulah Bankhead in “Looped,’’ at the Cutler Majestic Theatre. |
Stage Review
In Matthew Lombardo’s ‘Looped,’ Stefanie Powers plays hard-living legend Tallulah Bankhead
By Don Aucoin
/ Globe Staff /
May 3, 2013
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Their verbosity and omnipresence on multiple media platforms notwithstanding, we don’t expect our celebrities to be particularly witty. Quick, think of a genuinely clever quip by Taylor Swift, Ryan Seacrest, or Lindsay Lohan. Impossible, isn’t it?
Tallulah Bankhead was the genuine article. She would have thrived in the age of Twitter.
Tallulah swept grandly through her defiantly messy life, leaving a trail of memorable one-liners, apercus, and epigrams: “I’m as pure as the driven slush.’’ “I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That’s what I call a liberal education.’’
Now Stefanie Powers, who costarred with Bankhead in the 1965 B-movie “Die! Die! My Darling!,’’ is portraying Tallulah, and pretty delectably, too, in Matthew Lombardo’s “Looped.’’ Full story for BostonGlobe.com subscribers.
Don Aucoin can be reached at aucoin@globe.com.
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