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...CAST of Winthrop House Dramatic Society's production of The Plain Dealer asks its audience to "Laugh at fools aloud, before their mistresses." Yet unlike the popular (or unpopular) image of Restoration comedy, this play is more than just laughter, fools and mistresses...
...read, not said; and the Coppola screenplay (much rejuggled by Director Clayton) treats Fitzgerald's lines with untoward reverence. When Daisy sighs, "We were so close in our month of love," she sounds like a kid in a creative-writing course reading her first short story aloud...
...suppose what struck me most, as I would read them aloud sometimes to my wife or someone else, was the sense of life. There's a life to it. It's exciting as hell when you finish some good ones. About work, there's a wild humor sometimes. Mostly, the self-contradictions in people's thoughts, psyches, about work. Like the elderly switchboard operator in the motel saying, "Oh, I love my work. Oh, I'm happy, I'm very happy with my work. These young girls, they're not as conscientious as I am. Once, though...
Recently, Republican National Chairman George Bush came from a White House meeting with Nixon insisting that the President was informed, realistic, aware of his own peril and concerned about the burden he was to the Republican Party. "He was very good." Then almost angrily Bush wondered aloud why that image of an open, intelligent leader was never picked up beyond the White House fence. But Bush, like most of the others who gather round the President, would say no more. The hard specifics of the meeting, the give and take between men that shows how a President's mind...
...argue that despite his thorough knowledge of marketing, Yablans will not really be tested until he has to run Paramount without benefit of a Godfather-power superhit. Yablans may not stay around to prove himself. He has five more years to go on his contract and is already wondering aloud if he could break it to go into politics. "I'd like to run for elective office," he states with his customary candor. "And there is no sense unless you go all the way. Yes, I'd like to be President of the United States...