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...face would light up when he saw the right person. I would keep an eye on Gene's face and Bill's pad to get a sense of what was going on." Finally the six were chosen: Remak Ramsay to play the stuffy lawyer and Linda Atkinson for his wife, who always had a cause like saving Grand Central Terminal from the developers; Michael Ayr as the unbusinesslike architect and Jill Eikenberry as his aristocratic Italian wife; Luis Avalos for a comical Latin bartender and Evelyn Mercado as the maid he lusted after...
There is never enough time for perfection, particularly off-Broadway. The cast did not even see the set until the day before the Feb. 27 dress rehearsal. "It was like we had just barely moved into a house, but were having 150 people for dinner," says Linda Atkinson. At 8 p.m. the audience was in place in the 250-seat theater of Marymount Manhattan College on East 71st Street, which the Phoenix calls home. Saks gave a little speech, asking for consideration: "Things are pretty rough, and we may have to stop. Please be patient and give the actors your...
...style of play is mean and nasty, and I am going to beat people physically and mentally, but in no way am I going down in the record book as a cheap-shot artist." He explains the now-outlawed "Hook" tackle taught to him by fellow Safety George Atkinson as "simply flexing your biceps and trying to catch the receiver's head in the joint between the forearm and the upper arm. The purpose of the Hook was to strip the receiver of the ball, his helmet, his head and his courage." The best hit of his career, Tatum...
Philip J. Atkinson's legendary deed...
Next came Vassar and the recognition that this wholesome young woman possessed an eerie gift. Clinton Atkinson, a director on the college staff, found her acting "hair raising, absolutely mind boggling. I don't think anyone ever taught Meryl acting; she really taught herself." After graduating with a major in drama, she joined a small repertory company in Vermont and then won a three-year scholarship to the Yale School of Drama. Her classwork won ever higher praise. "Whenever she did a scene," says Director Robert Lewis, who was a professor there at the time, "you wished that...