Word: daltonic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Josh, who will attend the Professional Children's School this fall after eight years at the Dalton School, is still a kid. "I am kind of two different people," he says. "Very serious and competitive in one world. And Josh in the other one." The film ensures that he is now a third person in a new world: the semifictional, wholly romantic hero of a movie docudrama. He is other people's idea of Josh: a child again, as imagined by writer-director Steve Zaillian and played, with a nice, otherworldly seriousness, by chess whiz Max Pomeranc...
...Dalton Bookseller, Naperville, Illinois...
...Dalton Bookseller, Phoenix, Arizona...
...other figures portrayed in the film come off at least as badly as they do in real life. Peter Riegert is right on target as the cocky Shearson honcho Peter Cohen. The basset-mugged Fred Dalton Thompson, though a bit jowly for the part, is convincing as the charming but ineffectual Robinson, who last month was shown the door of troubled American Express...
...logorrheic characters -- are so often revived, with such imposing casts. Jason Robards has long fanned the flame on Broadway, / and London has seen many winning revivals: the Glenda Jackson Strange Interlude, Desire Under the Elms with Colin Firth and Carmen Du Sautoy, A Touch of the Poet with Timothy Dalton and Vanessa Redgrave. Actors love digging to the core of a role, no matter how long it takes; and O'Neill's plays, which idle in dour exposition before revving into revelation, let them reproduce that effort every night. For playgoers, the appeal is simpler. Once O'Neill warms...