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...people," Diana said. "I don't trust 'em." Six months ago, a handful of deter mined mothers in Cabrini overcame their fear of retaliation from the gangs and joined Mothers Against Gangs, a group assembled by Betty Majors, who lives near Cabrini-Green and lost her 17-year-old daughter to a stray gang bullet three years ago. She is leading the crusade to negotiate a Christmas truce, a single day without violence. So far the gangs have not agreed...
Writing is the one constant in Simon's life. Says Trilogy Director Gene Saks, one of Simon's valued friends: "He never stops writing because of any personal problem; it is his great release, and he never has writer's block." Daughter Ellen says her "earliest recollection was of sneaking past the door when he was writing. I always felt that I didn't have his full attention. He seemed to be distant, in his own world." For Simon, the early stages of writing a play are a kind of Freudian trek through the subconscious: "There's no blueprint...
...weather or ebbing enthusiasm can delay the work, but the Ocean Breeze project was free of such annoyances. By midafternoon of the fifth day, Robert Becker, 26, was delivering a final batch of sand in a borrowed backhoe, while Gary Craycroft, who had last hung swings for his baby daughter Penny, now put them up with her help. Said Penny, 14: "It's been neat. I'll never forget working at night with the lights on." But Leathers is out to impress the adults as much as their children. "They start out as cynics, but when the countdown begins...
...full flower in his trilogy. But for all its exuberant humor, Broadway Bound is a comedy only in the sense that Chekhov meant Uncle Vanya to be seen as a comedy. Its subjects include the dissolution of two marriages, the estrangements of a father from a daughter and of another father from his sons, the terminal cancer of one offstage character and the accidental death of another. Simon views the background of the play as "a war, a household war." Yet the play looks at grim events with a tempered optimism, a belief not so much in happy endings...
...there with a date, a friend, instead of someone you are deeply involved with," he says. He has had two such relationships recently with women who have young children, and says he has a potential wife in mind, although he does not discuss the matter further. Daughter Nancy, 23, believes being unmarried has made Simon more conscious of his age. Certainly he has gone through a moody period of late, one that has made him willing to talk about his worries and insecurity in conversation and not just through his work?a pursuit that was always his "refuge...