Word: conn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...country. The subject: whom to cast in Ragtime, the film based on the 1975 E.L. Doctorow bestseller. "How about you, James?" said the movie's director, Milos Forman, to the owner of the 800-acre New York cattle farm near Forman's place in Warren, Conn. "Well," replied the farmer after considerable reflection, "let's do it." And so, 20 years after his "final" screen appearance in One, Two, Three, James Cagney, 81, was back before the cameras last week in Brooklyn, looking spry in the turn-of-the-century waxed mustache and muttonchops of New York...
...people, ten times the total population of America's federal penitentiaries. And there are obvious difficulties with convicting young men of violating a law that they knew at least to be of dubious constitutionality. But who knows? The punishment may be severe--a semester at Danbury, Conn., not UMass. Many young men turned around and said they will wait another week to make up their minds, time to see how many aren't registering. Others registered but scrawled "under protest" on the cards. Still others said they would resist only once the draft begins...
...rumpled, impulsive Silverman is notoriously clumsy at firing subordinates. Two weeks ago, he sent cigar-chomping Hollywood Lawyer Milton Rudin to Pfeiffer's porticoed house in an exclusive, guarded section of Greenwich, Conn. Rudin reportedly made it clear that Pfeiffer was finished. The following Monday, Silverman called Pfeiffer into his Rockefeller Plaza office and told her that she would have to resign. Yet she apparently left thinking there was still some room for negotiation. Then, when she learned that her resignation had been requested, she turned livid and picked up the phone...
...plot is meager, the characters wear thin too quickly, the gags are often laid out as if for a garage sale. Consenting Adults does not have the emotional depth or the satiric edge of the author's seriocomedies, The Blood of the Lamb and Reuben, Reuben. In Decency, Conn., a favorite De Vries setting, the commuters and their wives clown around on the wall-to-wall carpeting but hear the steady drumming of eternity on the roof. In Pocock pipes of Pan playing tunes of innocence drown out the ravings of a street-corner Jeremiah. With sin and guilt...
wife of 34 years and mother of their seven children; in Bridgeport, Conn...