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...West Wing” attracts audiences of all types—particularly Harvard’s many government junkies, not to mention those who think actor Bradley Whitford is hot. The show’s devoted fanbase pulled in many excited pre-frosh, including Matthew T. Valji, who thought it was “such a cool event—it really shows Harvard’s clout...
...just had his way with his mistress Devonshire (Marta Dusseldorp). It's the Restoration, silly. And Barker trots out his defeated Puritans, dim-witted landowners and disgruntled cavaliers as lambs to be slaughtered by his withering wit: Milton on amphetamines (the poet, too, gets his comeuppance). It's an actor's feast, of course, with 36 roles shared among 11 players in this production, although the best one is saved for Davis, who co-directs with Benjamin Winspear...
...gesture is the subject of my focus. I'm always paying careful attention, like a pianist, and translate that attention into my performance. Iyengar knows what the body needs, and he's introduced to the West the Easterner's best path to health and well-being. --By MICHAEL RICHARDS, actor...
...nearly an adolescent and watching television from the linoleum floor of her mother's walk-up flat in Milwaukee, she witnessed an event that connected to something deep inside of her. She was watching the live broadcast of the Academy Awards ceremony and saw a young African-American actor receiving the film industry's highest honor. Sharing in that moment and all it implied, she later told me, caused her to say softly to herself, "If he can do that, I wonder what I could...
...That may also be partly due to the very special energy that is Oprah Winfrey--a courageous, funny, compassionate, well-informed, dazzlingly curious person, as down-to-earth and loving as any human being I've ever known. --BY SIDNEY POITIER, winner of the 1964 Academy Award for Best Actor in Lilies of the Field