Word: casted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past few years the entertainment industry has squarely placed adoption issues in the realm of television. So only a star-studded cast could have flungImmediate Family, which treats the subject of open adoption, onto the big screen...
Sure enough, the movie presents a star-studded cast. Glenn Close and James Woods give endearing performances as Linda and Michael Spector, an infertile couple hoping to adopt a baby. Mary Stuart Masterson and Kevin Dillon play un-wed teens hoping to give their child an advantaged life through adoption...
Immediate Family reminds viewers that serious actors do not have to be type-cast. Before realizing Close once played Big Chill-type roles, audience members expect her to be holding a knife instead of a birthday present in her lap at the movie's start. And where is the whiskey-swigging adventurer Woods plays in Salvador...
...NOTEBOOK: Van Dykum, a starter for the Crimson, split time with sophomore Loren Ambinder because of a broken thumb sustained in the Holy Cross game. The cast put on her hand was molded for her to grip a field hockey stick...
Woody goes after that sound in two ways. First, by using a wide open mouthpiece and a very hard reed -- a Rico Royale No. 5 -- which provides a lot of volume but requires cast-iron lips to play. (Benny Goodman once borrowed Woody's clarinet for a sit-in and had to shave the reed down with a kitchen knife before he could get a toot out of it.) Second, by playing an Albert System clarinet -- an antiquated, wide-bore instrument based on a virtually obsolete fingering method. Why the Albert System? "Because all the guys I liked played...