For decades Australian cinema, like the country itself, led the world in woolgathering.
But the urge to think of Shakespeare's people as real dies hard, and woolgathering has its charms, as John Updike wittily demonstrates anew in Gertrude and Claudius (Knopf; 212 .
As playwright, he instinctively senses the emotional desires of a woolgathering audience.
Ben Brantley in New York Times In a review of "West Side Story" for The New York Times, Ben Brantley wrote that Mr. Cavenaugh "has a goofy, woolgathering and slightly shy side that helps explain his subsequent ill-advised behavior. His singing is more tender, wondering and...