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...directorial debut. A veteran of Tommy, A Winter’s Tale and Hasty Pudding Theatricals, Kanter’s penchant for treading the boards is clearly evident in his managerial style during rehearsal. “One thing I am very aware of as an actor is that anything a director can tell an actor doesn’t matter if the actor can’t do it naturally,” he explains. Despite the narrative’s virtuosic leaps across time periods, the troupe of highly experienced actors are encouraged to perform naturally?...
...twist in which his wife got amnesia. But the screen hums whenever Sutherland's on it; he transcends 24's spare dialogue, creating Bauer's bitterness and nobility out of pauses and hard-eyed stares. This should spell another year of recognition for Sutherland, but is the longtime movie actor willing to stick it out in TV? "Ask me again in five years," he says. Or five long, long days...
DIED. ADOLPH GREEN, 86, lyricist, writer and actor who formed, with Betty Comden, left, Broadway's most enduring creative duo; in New York City. Born in the Bronx, he first teamed with Comden (the two were not married to each other) in a Greenwich Village satirical revue. Leonard Bernstein (Green's old summer-camp buddy) asked them to write the book and lyrics for On the Town, a Broadway musical about sailors on leave in New York City that became their first hit. They later brought sophistication and wit to such shows as Wonderful Town, Bells Are Ringing and, most...
DIED. RICHARD HARRIS, 72, hell-raising Irish actor; of Hodgkin's disease; in London. He first won acclaim for his starring role as a rugby player in This Sporting Life (1963) and later starred in such films as Camelot and A Man Called Horse. A new generation knew him as the kindly wizard Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, a role he reprises in next month's sequel...
Enduring frigid conditions, supporters heard from Green Party gubernatorial candidate Jill E. Stein ’73, Boston University Professor Howard Zinn and actor Tim Robbins, as the smell of burning sage permeated the park’s frozen fields and folk songs echoed off the facades of neighboring buildings...