Word: cassius
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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OTHER DETAILS are handled in equally open-eyed fashion. Carter Reardon as Cassius, the driving force behind the conspiracy to kill Caesar, looks properly "lean and hungry." More than in many productions of Shakespeare, thought is given to differentiating the subordinate female characters; Brutus's wife Portia (Crystal Miller) is tiny, delicate-looking, with a voice of steel, while the more ineffectual Calpurnia (Melinda McCrary) has a habit of turning back and forth to the various characters on stage, as if entreating them to listen to her. And when Caesar's ghost walks across the stage to warn Brutus...
Ever resourceful, All, until 1964 Cassius Clay of Louisville, Ky., responded to the shortage of good white opponents by inventing black white hopes. (Before their fight in Zaïre in 1974, he even tried to pass off George Foreman as a Belgian.) Yet he never sounded as mean spirited, as hateful and hurt, as Holmes does now. "If Cooney wasn't white, he'd be nothing," says Holmes. "I'm going to cut him, hurt him, open his lip, blacken his eye?for justice's sake. They talk about his great left hook. But what am I, a little child...
Before the fire, San Diego had little more than a sophisticated community playhouse in the Old Globe and in the 245-seat Cassius Carter Center Stage next door. That catastrophe forced it to rethink its commitment to theater and spurred it to establish a professional, Equity-scale company. Now, with the new Globe, the Carter and a new 620-seat outdoor stage, it has one of the best complexes in the U.S. Artistic Director Jack O'Brien has ambitious plans to make San Diego an important theatrical center, a rival of the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles...
...forget how cruel and rude Clay was," says Frazier, who, as a result, never stopped calling his adversary Cassius Clay. "But I think, now, I can forgive him. Oh, I always respected him as a fighter. Our ways were so different, and we were so different, but here we are at the same place." The same place? "We're fighting without any championships." Once won, is a championship ever completely lost? "A champion would be a champion if he's a champion," Frazier says thoughtfully, a deep thought for him. "Do you know who said that...
Rawson is no stranger to the commission, having served on it from 1958 to 1964. "I was sitting on the commission when Cassius Clay--now he's Muhammad Ali--was going to fight Sonny Liston," Rawson said, explaining that the fight never took place because Clay discovered a hernia injury the day of the weigh...