Word: cronyn
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...actresses had invested theatrical glamour with such elegance and intelligence as Jessica Tandy. So when she appeared at the ceremony with her husband Hume Cronyn to accept the first-ever Tonys for Lifetime Achievement, a hush fell on the heart of Broadway. Most of those in attendance knew that for five years Tandy had been battling ovarian cancer. Most other viewers would realize that the actress, who had turned 85 five days earlier, was in physical distress. That made her patrician poise a brave smile in the face of death. A lady never admits to agony. And Tandy...
...film Driving Miss Daisy, were both mid-century Southern belles. They were also polar opposites: a woman plummeting from nymphomania into dementia; a lady struggling to balance propriety and humanity. For Streetcar she won the first of three Tonys (the others were for two collaborations with Cronyn, The Gin Game in 1978 and Foxfire in 1982); for Miss Daisy she earned an Oscar as Best Actress in 1990. Two years later she received a Best Supporting Actress nomination for Fried Green Tomatoes. By then Tandy was more than an actress; she was a living monument to the old- fashioned belief...
...Firm eventually took Tom Cruise's running man into the presence of his chief tormentors. But Roberts' running woman gets to confront only a few members of the supporting cast, all of whom -- Culp aside -- are drably written and impossible even for actors as good as Hume Cronyn, John Lithgow and John Heard to sink a fang into. And we never get to see, even in the shadows that are a Pakula specialty, Mr. Big -- who has ordered the assassination of two Supreme Court Justices...
...guarantee jobs rather than leaving students to the mercy of a shrinking marketplace. More than 90% of the 90 graduates of a recent Focus Hope machinist program found work at companies that Cunningham had painstakingly recruited. "I had never even drilled a hole in my life," says Laura Cronyn, a 29-year-old single mother and former waitress who got one of those jobs in Detroit, "but I graduated No. 1 in my class." Cronyn plans to enroll part time in a six-year Focus Hope program that will teach students how to run a computerized factory floor. After eight...
When you are in love with acting, however, as these two actors are, you will take any challenging role, even if it is set in a nursing home. "Something comes through the air between an actor and the audience," says Cronyn. "I think the right word is empathy. You can tell immediately if you're not being heard, or if a lady is rattling a paper bag over in the sixth row, stage right, or if somebody has a bad cough. But the most magical moment in the theater is a silence so complete that you can't even hear...