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Will McEnaney: "What was it like when I saw the last ball was going to be caught? I just don't know. You'd have to be a drug addict or something to be able to describe it. It was something heavy...a rush...
...according to some, one of Radcliffe's last claims to importance--Arthurs is unwilling to see Radcliffe disappear entirely. Until women become a more normal part of the University's institutional structure, she says, "having an advocacy group of women remains an important task in itself." Calling herself "an addict of Radcliffe alums," she maintains also that Radcliffe has a serious responsibility to its alumnae, a responsibility it now meets through its Alumnae Office, Fund Office and alumnae magazine--what she calls "an enormous network which can't be ignored or dismissed." It's a responsibility, Arthurs recognizes, that involves...
Hackman's performance is fine, though not so Shakespearean as some have claimed. The withdrawal symptom scene (the villians capture him and turn him into an addict) did not turn out to be a spotlight for fancy-pants acting--they don't go on for too long, and at least he talks: Diana Ross in Lady Sings the Blues just sat and shivered miserably--one's reaction was "why am I watching this?" But Hackman moves through this film without straining--he's done better work before, and he seems to enjoy Doyle's character. His enunciation of various...
...melodrama in the play seems less high-flown when you have the melodrama of the author's own life and background to refer to. When you know that Hellman had an elegant aunt who was actually a morphine addict and the lover of her black chauffeur, who so resented the large loans she had made to her husband--the one who was having an affair with a Cajun girl--that she would never communicate with him except through the medium of her son Honey (a slightly off-beat character himself, who tried to rape Hellman when she was fourteen...
...biggest chance was being cast for a part in The Asphalt Jungle for a couple of weeks before another fringe performer named Marilyn Monroe took it away from her. Three times Holt married and divorced John Sarkesian, Cher's father, a compulsive gambler and later a heroin addict, although Cher did not meet him until she was eleven ("I hated him"). Between and after these marriages there were five others. Poverty, constant changes of address, a short stay in a Catholic nursing home for the needy were all part of Cher's childhood. Even a three-year burst...