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...Lawrence...McEvoy and fellow backup goalie John Devin finished in a tie for first place in Ivy League goals-against average. McEvoy didn't allow a goal in his 16 minutes of Ivy action against Brown in early February and Devin blanked Dartmouth in his 10 minute Ancient Eight cameo in late November...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Bourbeau Will Replace Fusco on First Line Against Colgate | 3/6/1986 | See Source »

Schmidt made a cameo appearance in Allen's newest film, "Hannah and Her Sisters." The cherub-faced future president plays the role of a doctor who tells Allen that his sperm count...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Class Cuts | 3/1/1986 | See Source »

Throughout, Reilly maintains the properly ironic tone. There is no special pleading about British homophobia; Wilde is a collaborator in his own misfortune. Shaw, Max Beerbohm, Frank Harris and the Edwardian elite are given delightful cameo roles, and the prose has the appropriate drawing-room astringency: Shaw and Wilde might have been close friends "if they only had less in common." If this is a novel with an excess of surface, that was, after all, its subject's salient feature. The important part, as Wilde would insist, is that the thing glitter. And so it does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New Pleasures and Promises | 2/17/1986 | See Source »

...bustling Schmidt retains a boyish quality, never more so than when he is rooting for his favorite athletes, hockey's New York Rangers. His engaging lack of inhibition prompted him to accept a cameo role as a doctor in Woody Allen's forthcoming film Hannah and Her Sisters. Truth to tell, the movie appearance was set up by Schmidt's third wife, Helen Cutting Whitney, producer and director of ABC and PBS documentaries on such topics as McCarthyism and homosexuality, and co-author, with Eugenia Zuckerman, of a feature-film script titled K.589...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Blue-Chip Choice: Yale names a new president | 12/23/1985 | See Source »

...sweat coming out of his ears. And the acting by the supporting cast also is fine, especially by John Rabinowitz '85 as a guest who points out the Sartrean dilemma of being and nothingness by throwing himself down on all fours "to pretend to be a hyena"--a cameo that culminates in Rabinowitz taking a chunk out of the leg of a fellow guest. Kudos to Fitch for giving Rabinowitz several chances throughout the play to reveal his amazing repertoire of vocal sound effects...

Author: By Ari Z. Posner, | Title: A Feast for All | 11/16/1985 | See Source »

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