Word: dares
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hulce's Mozart bears the familiar Forman trademark. The director always seems to be telling his actors: Go bigger, dare more, fill the biggest moviehouse with your passion and technique. Abraham's challenge as Salieri was more daunting. He must be all smoldering menace, a dandy in smirking repose-until, one day, he scans some scribbled Mozart sheet music, and tears of astonishment and fury course down his cheeks. Says Abraham, who has played in everything from Shakespeare to Scarface to a leotarded leaf in the Fruit of the Loom TV spots: "Salieri is a figure tragic...
Asking, "Do you dare?" is more than an exercise in Alan Alda Yuppiedom: it lies at the crux of deterrence theory, a theory that Schell painstakingly and convincingly shows is as out-of-date as John Wayne machismo...
There was nothing left to do but go on with the show. The gates opened the next night to long lines of Dare Countians...
...350th anniversary of Virginia Dare's birth date, approached, they commissioned Paul Green, whose 1926 drama In Abraham's Bosom had won a Pulitzer Prize, to turn their origins into art. By 1963 the play was growing a little long in the tooth, and they asked Broadway Director Layton to overhaul...
Hearing Layton issue a stiff command, Tucker said the director is not nearly so harsh as the first-night audience, Dare County citizens all. "The county is the toughest audience we have to play to. They talk during the performance until they hear a change. They don't care if your feelings are hurt...