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	Kenneth Tynan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kenneth Peacock Tynan (2 April 1927 - 26 July 1980), was an influential (and occasionally controversial) British theatre critic and author.
		Tynan was fiercely against censorship and determined to break taboos that he considered arbitrary.
		Tynan died in Santa Monica, California, of pulmonary emphysema, aged 53.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kenneth_Tynan (1401 words)

	Interview with Louise Brooks: Picture-Play Magazine, August, 1926. Pg.74.
		Tynan was in his early fifties and dying of emphysema, an exile in Los Angeles, when - as he recounts in his 1979 New Yorker article The Girl In The Black Helmet - he saw one of his favourite films on day- time television.
		Kenneth Tynan, who died in 1980, is one of the most significant figures in postwar British culture, but his legacy is hopelessly entangled.
		The illegitimate son of a Birm-ingham businessman, Tynan was drawn to theatre as a teenager, in a hedonist attempt to escape the austerity of 1940s Britain.
	www.psykickgirl.com /lulu/tynan.html (1941 words)

	From the archives of Paris Woman Journal/The Diaries of Kenneth Tynan
		Kenneth Tynan came to prominence as drama critic for England's The Observer where he championed the New Wave in theatre, passionately praising John Osborne's Look Back in Anger as "the best young play of its decade." Possessing a stinging, often wicked, wit, his influence was great and even frightening.
		What Tynan wanted to do is stage a sequel to the controversial revue Oh, Calcutta which he created, finish a biography of Wilhelm Reich that he had been contracted to write, and find financing for a sex film he hoped to direct.
		The Diaries of Kenneth Tynan are often funny, occasionally shocking, and always sad, wise and readable.
	www.angelfire.com /oh2/writer/tynan.html (510 words)

	Arts Unlimited \| Arts critics \| Obituary: Kenneth Tynan
		Tynan, the celebrator of heroic acting, turned into the committed critic during his years at the Observer from 1954 to 1963.
		Tynan's departure to become Olivier's literary manager with the newly formed National Theatre company in 1963 was seen by some as a sad defection: "Librarian for an obscure South London repertory company" was how Private Eye cruelly described his new job.
		I was also touched when he rang me one day in 1976, clearly in a state of shock over a Times leader suggesting that he had been corrupted by the pornography of cruelty: it took little prompting to persuade me to write a letter to the editor, never published, refuting the absurd accusation.
	arts.guardian.co.uk /critic/feature/0,1169,567652,00.html (1215 words)

	BBC - BBC Four Cinema - In Praise of Hardcore
		Kenneth Tynan's absolute honesty that he clings to in every circumstance, that is what interested me.
		By the 70s Kenneth Tynan is past his peak really and it's the story of the decline of his marriage, the decline of his career, his ill-health, his constant financial worries and that would make quite a dark film if that's all it was.
		Essentially the film is the story of how Kenneth Tynan got to the place where he sat down and wrote the diaries.
	www.bbc.co.uk /bbcfour/cinema/features/praise-of-hardcore.shtml (1055 words)

	wbur.org Arts - Books - A Critic's Decline
		Kenneth Tynan's descent from brilliance to muddle is a fable for theater critics, a cautionary tale about the triumph of the will-to-celebrity over the urge-to-critique.
		The sharp intelligence and dexterous wit in "The Diaries of Kenneth Tynan," albeit proffered amid gossip, hosannas to sexual sadism, and radical chic windbaggery, testifies to it.
		Tynan exhausted himself by trying to live, spiritually and financially, on what, after all, is only 1/10th of a critic's job --hawking the goods.
	www.wbur.org /arts/2002/50057_20020103.asp (1199 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Curtains, by Kenneth Tynan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Five hundred pages of collected Tynan, decked with a sumptuousness normally reserved for the Living Thoughts of major philosophers and the memoirs of field marshals: even the faithful must quail a little, confronted with the wisdom of the master in such bulk.
		...Tynan may be a democrat by temperament, but he often indulges in this kind of wishful thinking, and he seems depressingly undisturbed by authoritarianism when it comes from the left...
		...Tynan's gifts as a journalist are well known to readers of the London Observer and the New Yorker, but one wondered whether the snap, crackle, and pop of weekly reviewing was going to turn soggy served up in some cases ten years after the event: would Tynan prove durable as well as dazzling...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V32I3P77-1.htm (2108 words)

	Print Article: Kenneth Tynan: A Life
		Although these books deal with Tynan the critic, his professionalism is wrapped inside such swathes of personal tissue-paper it is hard to come to terms with the sort of critic Tynan was.
		Kenneth Tynan, freshly down from Oxford, reviewed theatre for London's Evening Standard from 1952 until he left two years later to join The Observer, where he stayed for just on 10 years, including a season's leave-of-absence in the late 1950s, when he reviewed for The New Yorker.
		Tynan was also fiercely anti-censorship, fixing the Lord Chamberlain's office ("that anachronistic bogey"), which then vetted all works intended for the British stage, in his sights.
	www.theage.com.au /cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl?path=/articles/2004/02/11/1076388428010.html (612 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Diaries of Kenneth Tynan [Audiobook]: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		It is also a desperate, harrowing tale of a tormenting talent on a tragic trajectory, described by Tynan's second wife Kathleen, in her superb biography The Life of Kenneth Tynan as "electrically charged, but not earthed".
		Tynan's extra-marital affair with the eclectic Nicole is riveting,at one point their exploits involve a bizzarre use of vodka, as are his Wildean quips and observations.
		Tynan seems to emulate his hero Wilde during his final years in the USA by living and dying beyond his means.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0747559902 (1193 words)

	National Theatre : History of the NT : Kenneth Tynan
		Kenneth Tynan was chiefly known as a journalist, finding fame with his work as a theatre critic with the Evening Standard, Observer, and The New Yorker.
		Tynan had been a passionate supporter of the movement to found the National Theatre; in 1955 critics Tynan and Richard Findlater (The Winding Road to King’s Reach), despairing of the Theatre’s ever being built, staged a mock funeral beside the foundation stone.
		Tynan’s understanding of the concept of a repertory theatre was articulated in a speech to the Royal Society of Arts in 1964.
	www.nationaltheatre.org.uk /?lid=8843 (537 words)

	LRB \| James Wolcott : Skating Charm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Kenneth Tynan smoked like a maestro, an aficionado of his own smooth technique.
		Cigarettes were key props in the Ken Tynan legend assembly-kit, along with the Mickey Mouse watch and effete-aesthete Anthony Blanche outfits he wore at Oxford, and, later, the poolstick collection of headmaster's canes he kept handy to beat women's bottoms.
		The front cover of The Diaries of Kenneth Tynan is a close up of its subject inhaling, eyes shut, fingers splayed; its back cover, three shots of him in different stages of smoking - an action-sequence of sorts.
	www.lrb.co.uk /v23/n24/print/wolc01_.html (488 words)

	The British Theatre Guide: Kenneth Tynan - A Life (Review)
		This is the verdict of the perhaps greatest victim of Kenneth Tynan's Jekyll and Hyde character, his first wife Elaine Dundy.
		The remainder of Tynan's life is less well covered and sometimes, this book can feel more like a social history of Britain and its theatre in the fifties and sixties with particular reference to Tynan's influence on it.
		Tynan delighted in attacking the moribund upper-middle class, "Loamshire" theatre of the early 50s.
	www.britishtheatreguide.info /articles/091103x.htm (651 words)

	Tynan
		Kenneth Tynan was that rarest of critics, one whose criticism outlived him.
		Tynan was fortunate in coming to prominence in 1950s England as the fiery new talents of Samuel Beckett, John Osborne and Brendan Behan chased the cobwebs out of British theater, but the theater was also lucky to have him.
		Tynan suffered from a form of emphysema cruelly vulnerable to the impact of tobacco, but he declined to quit smoking as he felt he couldn't write without it.
	www.vnuemedia.com /thr/reviews/review_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000828746 (536 words)

	AllRefer.com - Kenneth Peacock Tynan (Journalism And Publishing, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Kenneth Peacock Tynan[tI´nun] Pronunciation Key, 1927–80, English drama critic, author, and theatrical executive, b.
		During the 1950s, while writing for The Observer, Tynan was widely regarded as Britain's most brilliant, insightful, and influential drama critic.
		Tynan's last years, spent in Los Angeles, were filled with disappointment and unhappiness and were artistically enlivened primarily by a series of lengthy profiles he wrote for The New Yorker magazine.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/T/Tynan-Ke.html (254 words)

	Tynan, Kenneth Peacock on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		TYNAN, KENNETH PEACOCK [Tynan, Kenneth Peacock], 1927-80, English drama critic, author, and theatrical executive, b.
		Words our father taught us A new play about Kenneth Tynan proves that there is life after death for a theatre critic.
		Smoking gun; Kenneth Tynan was a taboo-breaker and spanking aficionado.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/T/Tynan-K1e.asp (522 words)

	Kenneth Tynan - Wikiquote
		Kenneth Tynan (April 2, 1927 - July 26, 1980), British author.
		No theater could sanely flourish until there was an umbilical connection between what was happening on the stage and what was happening in the world.
		It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.
	en.wikiquote.org /wiki/Kenneth_Tynan (979 words)

	Playbill News: Corin Redgrave to Be Kenneth Tynan at Royal Shakespeare Company
		Flamboyant in his language, prose and dress; tall and elegant, yet saddled with a stutter; a heavy smoker and drinker with an unseemly and open interest in all varieties of sexual pleasure—Tynan was as theatrical and showy as the attractions he reviewed.
		According to the Observer (the paper for which Tynan wrote for years), the critic's daughter by his first marriage, to Elaine Dundy, suggested the idea for the play.
		Tynan greatest achievement as a critic was his advocacy of the Angry Young Man school of playwriting, which in the late '50s rocked the staid English theatre traditions.
	www.playbill.com /news/article/85677.html (619 words)

	Salon Entertainment \| Feature: The lost art of celebrity journalism
		That's the impression you take away from reading Kenneth Tynan's "Letters" -- finally published in this country after a long delay -- and its companion piece, "Profiles." By "anachronism" I do not mean "dated," but something out of place in the present.
		Tynan was drama critic for the London Observer and the New Yorker; in the '60s he was chosen by Laurence Olivier to be literary director of Britain's then newly founded National Theatre.
		It's hardly worth saying that we won't soon see another of Tynan's kind (what unique talent can't that be said of?); what seems much more pertinent is that we aren't likely even to see another who attempts to follow his example.
	www.salon.com /ent/feature/1998/06/cov_16feature.html (653 words)

	Amazon.com: Profiles: Books: Kenneth Tynan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Tynan wrote so beautifully and wittily and lovingly about the stage and the people who inhabit it and he was also responsible in a major way for the success of the National Theatre of Great Britain along with his friend and professional partner, Laurence Olivier.
		Tynan was one of the century's great journalists, capable of capturing a performer in two paragraphs, yet equally adept at longer essays, several of which are collected here.
		Epstein regards Tynan as a lightweight and in a way I guess he is, but a skilled lightweight is still a thing of beauty and Tynan IS skilled.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679756396?v=glance (915 words)

	The Connection.org : The Kenneth Tynan Diaries
		Tynan was also a compulsive journal keeper and gossip: And what gossip.
		Kenneth Tynan knew all the stars -- drank with them, wrote about them.
		Critic, Chronicler and very funny fellow -- the life and legacy of Kenneth Tynan is on The Connection.
	www.theconnection.org /shows/2000/08/20000817_a_main.asp (216 words)

	Oh! Kenneth Tynan!
		Tynan found himself in demand for the “new and special brilliance, style, wit and learning”, as James Thurber put it, that Tynan brought to the theatre page.
		Nevertheless, Tynan adopted a clear stance on the left, learning about the repressive state when a police horse trod on his foot at a demo in London in 1956 against the Anglo-French war against Egypt over Nasser's nationalisation of the Suez Canal.
		Tynan's motto -- “rouse tempers, goad and lacerate, raise whirlwinds” -- and his literary brimstone rattled the bars of many cages which had kept human freedom imprisoned, but he missed the mark on others.
	www.greenleft.org.au /back/1995/199/199p28.htm (835 words)

	Kenneth Peacock Tynan
		Tynan, Kenneth Peacock, 1927–80, English drama critic, author, and theatrical executive, b.
		Tynan was widely regarded as Britain's most brilliant, insightful, and influential drama critic.
		Tynan's last years, spent in Los Angeles, were filled with disappointment and unhappiness and were artistically enlivened primarily by a series of lengthy profiles he wrote for
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0849842.html (114 words)

	Amazon.com: Kenneth Tynan: A Life: Books: Dominic Shellard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Kenneth Tynan (1927–1980) lived one of the most intriguing theater lives of his century.
		The book reveals both the public and private Tynan, an outspoken, explicit, and sometimes savage critic who became one of the most influential theater figures of the twentieth century.
		The real interest in Mr Tynan was his influence in helping shape the emergence of some of the greatest theatre of the last century and his legacy of writing associated with that mission - and mission it was.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0300099193?v=glance (729 words)

	Broadway: The American Musical . Critics Corner . Kenneth Tynan \| PBS
		Kenneth Tynan made his reputation in England while still an undergraduate at Oxford.
		His remarkably acute prose for THE LONDON OBSERVER helped to brand an entire generation of postwar British drama: the plays of the "Angry Young Man." In addition, he championed writers like Harold Pinter and Samuel Beckett and idolized such actors as Laurence Olivier and Ralph Richardson.
		Olivier made him the literary manager of the National Theatre in 1963, a post Tynan served in for six years.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/broadway/pop_critics/critic3.html (122 words)

	Alibris: Kenneth Tynan
		A collection of fifty of Kenneth Tynan's legendary profiles of the men and women who give 'high-definition performances.' They were published between 1943 and 1979 and appeared in "The New Yorker," "The Observer," "Playboy," "Harper's Bazaar" and other publications.
		A central figure of London society in the 1960s and 1970s, Tynan was on familiar terms with many of the great and the good of his day (such as Orson Wells, Marlene Dietrich, Norman Mailer, John Lennon, and Tennessee Williams), whose letters are included in this...
		Tynan right & left; plays, films, people, places and events.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Kenneth_Tynan (361 words)

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