Word: chelsea
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...origin within two weeks, all of them next door to the building where officials believe the blaze began. But baffled investigators could find no rational motive: the building belonged to a state-chartered development agency, and was minimally insured. Dejected Lynn leaders can take heart from the example of Chelsea, Mass. (pop. 25,431), just five miles southwest. In October 1973 a fire there destroyed 360 buildings over 18 city blocks. Now 65% of the fire site has been rebuilt, and the rest is scheduled for new development...
...recording of Four Saints is now being made and is due out next year. A new collection of his writings, A Virgil Thomson Reader,has just been issued (Houghton Mifflin; 582 pages; $25). Convivially holding court in the suite that he has occupied for decades in Manhattan's Chelsea Hotel, the old boy (as he has been fondly called) chats with a stream of visitors while fielding a barrage of calls from well-wishers and colleagues. (The phone's bell is amplified to fire-alarm intensity because of his partial deafness, his one apparent concession...
...When Chelsea reappears, the old man even manages a tentative truce, acceptance of the sort Ethel has been struggling to bring about. Whether that truce signals a real reconciliation the movie does not definitively promise. But if it refuses to go for a big, emotional finish that would leave its audience awash in grateful tears, neither does it leave them without hope...
...Broadway, with Frances Sternhagen and Tom Aldridge as the Thayers?almost filled the bill: it had everything but a role for Peter. "My dad isn't exactly Norman Thayer, but there's a lot of Dad in the part. And I guess there's a lot of Chelsea, Norman's daughter, in me. Like Chelsea, I had to get over the desperate need I once had for his approval, and to conquer my fear of him. We've never been intimate...
...Jane goes through more crap to act," Fonda says, "instead of just doing it. I don't believe you study acting. You feel it, know it, play it." When Jane and Dabney Coleman, who played Chelsea's beau, would take time to discuss motivation, Kate and Hank would have giggle fits. In one scene, Jane recalls, "we were setting up a light, and I wanted it moved so I could see Dad better and he could...