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Jason Robards was a journeyman actor when he auditioned for Director Jose Quintero in 1956 for a revival of Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh. After reading for another role, Robards asked for a chance to try the climactic final monologue of the central character, Hickey, a backslapping little salesman some two decades older than the lean, magisterial Robards was then. Of the reading, Quintero says: "The way he peeled away Hickey's cheerful front to get to the madness and guilt underneath was terrifying." Robards got the part, the production established both him and Quintero as major forces...
...Boston area (according to one local magazine). Ha' Penny resembles a London pub. It also offers the most diverse clientele of any bar in the Square: you will probably sit between a construction worker on break from the subway construction and a faculty members reading. The Icemen Cometh A 12-oz mug of draft goes for a buck and bartenders pour some of the strongest mixed drinks in the area, starting...
This thorough synthesis makes up for the most superficial treatments of some other plays later in the book. Tidbits from studies of Desire Under the Elms, Mourning Becomes Electra and The Iceman Cometh provide occasional flashes of insight, so do a few of the details from Berlin's otherwise sketchy treatment of O'Neill's life--for instance, the young playwright was kicked out of Princeton for throwing a rock through the window of then-president Woodrow Wilson. And describing the disease' which made O'Neill's hands shake for the last decade of his life--effectively cutting...
...Illinois, states that were on Reagan's itinerary last week. At an Omaha rally for Governor Charles Thone, who is in a tight race with Democrat Bob Kerrey, the President preached his faith in economic recovery with a religious fervor. "Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning," he said, borrowing from Psalm 30. "America has endured a long terrible night of economic hardship, but we are seeing the first welcome bursts of sunshine...
...Reagan's daily newspaper reading is the editorials and the comics. He gets the news in a digest prepared by his staff. His favorite place remains his small ranch near Santa Barbara. He sounds almost biblical when he talks about it. "I look to the hills from whence cometh my strength. In my case, it is absolutely true." His college years stand out now more in his mind as he looks back. "It was a small school, and it was during the depths of the Depression. I think now I can see that there was a bond among...