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Article: Waiting for Tarantino; Hollywood cult hero shuns the spotlight for his big-time stage debut in 'Dark'; Tarantino waits for 'Dark' for big debut.
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- The Boston Herald
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- February 27, 1998
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Poor Quentin Tarantino.
The always controversial writer-director, who has personally taken possession of Hollywood's high-octane, self-referential crime-caper genre ("Reservoir Dogs," "Pulp Fiction," "Jackie Brown"), makes his first appearance on the professional stage tomorrow when the Broadway-bound revival of Frederick Knott's '60s chiller-thriller "Wait Until Dark" premieres at the Wilbur Theater.
It's not his performance as the sadistic drug dealer - a role Robert Duvall created on Broadway and Alan Arkin reprised for the '67 film version - that's made Tarantino unhappy.
It's the attention.
After four weeks of intense rehearsals ...