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...Biff Souterman, the guard on duty at the time, was puzzled about how the loot, worth over $45,000, could have been taken out of the yard without his knowledge...
Such a man, obviously, has aspects of the universal about him. And so do his family: the patiently loving wife, played with unsentimental fortitude by Kate Reid in a performance in its way as awesome as Hoffman's; the sons who are Willy bifurcated, with Biff (John Malkovich) inheriting the dreaming genes, Happy (Stephen Lang) the gift of delusory gab, but with both lacking their father's annealing fire. Miller has said that at its heart Salesman is "a love story between a man and his son, and in a crazy way between both of them and America...
...play") that was also integral to Miller's first imaginings, yet was somehow lost to memory and lost on revivalists, who have mistaken glum sobriety for high seriousness. On the night of Feb. 10, 1949, when Salesman opened on Broadway the first time, Arthur Kennedy, the original Biff, recalls wandering around in a daze between acts, encountering Miller, and asking him how he thought the play was going. "The issue is not in doubt," the playwright firmly replied; and now it seems even the last pockets of resistance must finally yield to his astonishing, youthful 33-year...
...North (Gary Martin. Tim Barakett) 6 23: H. Ken Code (Dave Connors. Rob Wheeler) 8:46; H. Shayne Kukulowicz (Connors. Randy Taylor) 19:H. Connors. (Kukulowicz, Wheeler) 17:34, P. Allan Gray (Bill Brady. Cliff Abrecht) 2:41; P. Gray (Steve Biff. Brady) 12:57; H. Tony Visone (Brian Busconi) 13:03. H. Rob Ohno (Busconi) 13:31; H. Peter Chiarellil (Brad Dorman, Taylor...
Another, more succinct contender: "He had hewn his house and land from twelve acres of Alaska wilderness, Biff Hanratty had, and he knew one thing-he would never share them with a woman...