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...audience to sit through the dithering. They're nice kids and all that, but they don't exactly claw madly at one another. It's as if they know that someday they're going to be part of "the Greatest Generation" and don't want to offend Tom Brokaw. Besides, megahistory and personal history never integrate here...
...indignant. Luke W. M. White ’03 recently stated in “An Artist’s Best Friend” (Opinion, April 2) that “every age needs its Robin Hood.” The generation that Tom Brokaw and others have called the “greatest” needed no such hoodlums. Our grandfathers who fought on the beaches of Dunkirk and Normandy and kept the trust of democracy in the civilized world were beyond the lawlessness and the vandalism that White seems to encourage. He is part and parcel...
...watchable enough, because Lonergan writes sharp dialogue and has more respect for plot than many playwrights these days. But none of it sticks to the ribs. Some blame goes to the actors (as Dawn, the female cop, Heather Burns has no street cred at all) and to Mark Brokaw's direction, which is too broad. But the fault lies mostly with Lonergan, who betrays his much vaunted realism with contrivance and cheap laughs at every turn. Example: Jeff, the cutely self-aware nincompoop, doesn't want to betray his boss's confidence, so he tells the whole story to Dawn...
Lara A. Setrakian '04, an audience member, said she was impressed with Brokaw's personality...
Setrakian also said that she appreciated Brokaw's modesty. Brokaw joked in his speech about how he had been denied admission to Harvard...