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...colors himself? He wasn't Irish; his name wasn't even O'Brian. He was born Richard Russ, the last of nine children of a bankrupt English physician who dispersed the family after his wife died. As a young man, Russ/O'Brian abandoned a wife, son and dying infant daughter to pursue a writer's life. When fame arrived and the world tracked him to the south of France, where he had lived since 1950 with his second wife, he invented a new past. But a biography by Dean King published just after O'Brian's death revealed that despite...
Long-running series always evolve, of course: Law & Order may soon have gone through more generations of actors than Cats. But rarely are TV shows remade as fundamentally as 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter, The Practice and The West Wing have been, let alone all in one season. The most drastic retooling starts this week with the first episode of 8 Simple Rules (ABC, Tuesdays, 8 p.m. E.T.) since the death of star John Ritter in September. Sitcoms have lost stars before (recently, an ailing Michael J. Fox on Spin City), but 8 Simple Rules...
...election against a Republican so dim and loutish no one could have voted for him unless tricked by a butterfly ballot. This year--resolving a cliffhanger set up by Sorkin--Wing gave us John Goodman as a G.O.P. House Speaker (stepping in for Bartlet after his daughter was kidnapped), who was inspiring, even noble, and the new Vice President (Gary Cole) is a wily, underestimated foil to Bartlet...
First, though, the cast and crew: the best performance in the three-person cast was given by Andrea D. Leahy ’05 as Irene, an aging mother. Irene is on rough terms with her daughter, has recently been abandoned by her husband, and is about to lose her house to the floodwaters of an overflowing river. Leahy gave a kind of grandeur to Irene’s dignified refusal to submit to adversity...
Miranda Featherstone ’06, as Irene’s daughter Mary, emoted clumsily and excessively, and her presumable efforts to seem adolescent and stressed resulted in an acting style that came off as diffident. In a minor role, Henry I. Lichtblau ’07 did a good job as Mary’s cardboard-masculine boyfriend Peter; his comic timing wasn’t bad, given the material, and his gestures jived well with his lines. The set, designed by Laura P. Perry ’04, was well-conceived and professionally executed. The play?...