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Some who have come to be famous see in retrospect that the daydream may have been touchingly adolescent, self-inflating in the style of Mr. Toad. In some personalities, the need for attention is darker and more retrograde: neurotic, infantile, a sort of baby's unappeasable love craving, a raw, screaming hunger...
...most realistic characters in the show. Goose is played with the same enthusiastic and endearing stupidity--but none of the goofy "Hee-Haw" type humor--that Amblad brought to last spring's "As You Like It." Lopez-Saenz gives an equally powerful performance as the darker, more haunted Tom-Tom. The camaraderie between the two actors, though bumbling and vulgarity-drenched, is excellent and rarely found in Harvard theater...
...Stewart had been a figure of wild gestures; the Hitchcock hero was a man in moral traction, drawn to look at evil and wonder at its awful seductions. This was daring stuff. It took a bold man to twist and extend his star quality from sunny Jim into the darker shades of his mature roles. It took an extraordinary actor to achieve all this with such skill and courage, and not let the acting show...
...century's reign as the most successful moviemaker in history affect the man who took out a patent on perennial childhood. From the films he made as a 12-year-old, through such defining blockbusters as Close Encounters of the Third Kind and E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, to the darker Empire of the Sun and the harsh, self-critical Hook--which behind the raucous derring-do sounds like a cry for help from a man afraid that his personal fountain of youth has run dry--Spielberg has analyzed kids' loneliness, tested their innocence and celebrated their resilience in what amounts...
...vague recollections of mentioning to the First Lady that he was "concerned" about Hubbell and wanted to "be supportive" of the latest member of their transplanted Arkansas circle to meet with personal calamity. The efforts were, in the White House's telling of them, a mission born of no darker motive than sympathy. Bowles, then heading the Small Business Administration, had no long-standing ties to Hubbell, but was moved when he heard of his plight from then Trade Representative Mickey Kantor, who was himself making calls on Hubbell's behalf. "My dad raised me to help people when they...