Love Hurts, and for Some Couples, That’s the Point
BEN BRANTLEYFebruary 1, 2011: “Gruesome Playground Injuries” — a blood-spattered twig of a play from the up-and-coming dramatist Rajiv Joseph — recalls that time in the 1960s when Hollywood was in thrall to what publicists liked to call “a different kind of love story.” Incarnated by a twitchy new breed of beauties that included Warren Beatty, Natalie Wood, Tuesday Weld and Anthony Perkins, a battalion of sensitive, damaged Romeos and Juliets took over American screens, writhing in romances that were more about pain than about pleasure, or perhaps the confusion of the two.
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