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...creator brought some real compassion to these sealed-off lives, we might take them more readily to heart. If they suggested some generalized insights about lower-middle-class life, we might more readily forgive their dreary excesses. And if wishing could make it so, Neil Simon would be Anton Chekov's authentic, instead of his merely aspiring, heir. Which would make this a much better world to live...
...devote themselves to a single theatrical endeavor? This question has acquired relevance with the founding of the Working Title Repertory Company by undergraduates Bina Martin and Jeanne Simpson. Working Title recently stages its first production, Sam Shephard's A Lie of the Mind, and is expected to perform Anton Chekov's The Three Sisters in April...
...Shade, a dazzling novel of free- floating angst and male brinkmanship set in the Florida Keys. Ninety-Two was nominated for a National Book Award, and McGuane became, in the words of ^ Saul Bellow, "a kind of language star." Critics compared the 34-year-old author to Faulkner, Hemingway, Chekov and Camus. The big time -- and Tinseltown -- beckoned. McGuane became a celluloid hotshot, penning scripts for Rancho Deluxe and Tom Horn among other movies. In exchange for writing 1976's The Missouri Breaks, which starred Marlon Brando and Jack Nicholson, he was given the chance to direct the screen version...
...pass themselves off as primitive earthlings. With the help of Co-Screenwriter Nicholas Meyer (who, in Time After Time, propelled H.G. Wells and Jack the Ripper into San Francisco in 1979), they do just fine. Dr. "Bones" McCoy (DeForest Kelley) brazens his way through a little miracle surgery; Chekov (Walter Koenig), the Russian, has to explain his way out of an American nuclear submarine; Scotty (James Doohan) brings postmodern plastics to Marin County. And Spock, wandering around Golden Gate Park in a Vulcan bathrobe and proving his ineptness with the local slang, must be passed off as a casualty...
Over the past two years, actress Kelly McGillis has been receiving rave reviews--from her starring role in last year's hit thriller Witness to her recent portrayal of Nina in the National Repertory Theater's production of Anton Chekov's The Seagull. Yesterday in the Quincy House Junior Common Room, McGillis tried her hand at some critique, herself...