Word: breakfast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Every morning 10,000 men of Harvard stumble from sunless rooms to breakfast. Check in, take a tray, grab utensils, receive food. How neat, and how impersonal. And yet some pleasures remain. Every serving lady knows me and I know each and all of them. We're great friends...
...deadfall guy, Stanley (James Patterson), a paranoid expianist, is a mildly sinister human cipher and the sole boarder of a dilapidated rooming house at an English seaside resort. His landlady, Meg (Ruth White) cuddles and cossets him; unfailingly, she treats Stanley and her whey-faced husband to the breakfast specialty of the house, corn flakes and fried bread. Stanley has even less stomach for breakfast when he learns that two men named Goldberg (Ed Flanders) and McCann (Edward Winter) have come to the house as roomers...
Upon arrival at the Plympton Street address, however, police said they found nothing but an introductory meeting for would-be editors of Cambridge's only breakfast-table daily...
...long, if Strasberg has his way. During one class, after chiding a group of actors for eating their make-believe breakfast too rapidly, he lectured: "You are unconsciously following only chronological sequences, imitating an act rather than re-creating it. Through mastery of emotional memory after mastery of sensory memory, we create something new." "Absolutely fascinating," says Jeanne Moreau. "In principle, I am against all systems for training actors, but now 1 know that this is not what Strasberg means or does. He is a great teacher, the kind who doesn't mold an actor but makes him discover...
...here was the kid's chance to try to put one into Kenmore Square, be a super-hero, and get half a dozen stories in the next morning's Boston Globe about his wife, his children, his dog, his first grade teacher, his parents, his favorite brand of breakfast food...