Word: alan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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BUGSY MALONE Directed and Written by ALAN PARKER...
Survival, if by less dire means, is a subject for which Allan Carr has near-Andean credentials. He was hopelessly show-biz-struck as a kid named Alan Solomon in suburban Highland Park, Ill. At 21 he changed his last name and the spelling of his first. He landed a job as general manager of Chicago's Civic Theater, staging such productions as The World of Carl Sandburg, with Bette Davis and Gary Merrill. "I also flew in Carl Sandburg," Carr recalls superciliously, "who brought a little carton of goat's milk." The aspiring entrepreneur arrived in Hollywood...
...Rights Amendment to the Constitution would help housewives. In the Ladies' Home Journal, the wives of seven 1976 presidential contenders voted 5 to 2 for the ERA and told why. (Only Cornelia Wallace and Nancy Reagan were against it.) The ardently feminist Ms. ran a story by Actor Alan Alda explaining how the amendment could benefit men. In fact, one kind of article or another explaining the ERA appeared in the July issue of 34 women's magazines...
...embittered with his job as a junior high school principal, and regards himself as a man of "unfulfilled potential." James feels he has been held back by his obligations to his recently-deceased father and Tom (William Leach) his alcoholic brother. And through it all is the coach (Alan Gifford), spouting maxims, insisting that they must hang tough with each other; nothing has changed in 20 years, it is still us against them. "Beat that Jew, Beat that Jew," sneers Tom, "Go Gentiles...
...Alan Gifford starts off the show unimpressively. His portrayal of the coach is fairly monotonous, showing him as a senile old man incapable of inspriing anyone. Gifford warms up in the third act however and his last soliloquoy, where he quotes his father's last words--"Always remember this; Karl Marx was a Jew"--is profoundly moving and funny...