Word: allen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Even some child advocates say the new residency measures have gone too far. "These offenders need to have somewhere to live," says Ernie Allen, president and CEO of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. "We can't zone them out everywhere using the not-in-my-backyard approach...
DriveABLE was originally developed by Canadian neuropsychologist Allen Dobbs to help guide physicians in making driving-fitness decisions about patients with dementia. In a preliminary two-year study, Dobbs tested the performance of three groups of drivers: Alzheimer's patients, normal 65-and-older people and 30-to-40-year-olds. He found that the cognitively impaired drivers made different kinds of errors from normal drivers--errors that could prove deadly. He then created DriveABLE to help evaluators identify the most dangerous drivers...
DIED. DANNY SIMON, 86, veteran comedy writer for Phil Silvers, Milton Berle and Sid Caesar, and the inspiration for some of the famous characters written by his younger brother Neil; in Portland, Ore. Revered by younger comics--Woody Allen said he learned all he knew about comedy writing from him--Danny had an idea for a play, from his experience as a divorced man living with another, that became Neil's The Odd Couple...
...TIME: I was thinking of one Bergman's greatest admirers, Woody Allen. As you probably know, he doesn't give his actors the entire script for the film, just their own scenes. But Bergman isn't like that, right? Isn?t his direction of actors in film rooted in his direction of actors in the theatre...
...Ingmar Bergman films. His influence was everywhere: in the look and some of the scenes of Monty Python and the Holy Grail (inspired by The Seventh Seal), in the horror film The Last House on the Left (a remake of The Virgin Spring) and any number of Woody Allen films, including Interiors (in the manner of Cries and Whispers). On Broadway, Stephen Sondheim transposed the domestic deceptions of Smiles of a Summer Night into A Little Night Music...