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John (Michael Davidson '00) is a professor, the kind who revels in assigning his own books. He takes for granted that all his words are both clear and correct. Unfortunately, they are neither of these things to Carol (Jessica Kaye '00), a student who has come to John's office to save herself from failing...
...boldest power plays in Oleanna are those that the script plays against its own characters. In the first act, Carol's whiny narrowness is hopelessly outmatched by John's self-assurance. Davidson deftly expressed John's arrogance, reading the line "I love you, too," spoken to his wife over the phone, not as a response to her own affection but as a pompous self-affirmation. "I love myself first," he implicitly states, "and I also love you." Kaye, for her part, squeezed a few unlikely laughs out of Carol's anxious despair in the face of confounding verbiage like...
...Weinsteins also enjoy hondeling and hectoring. In 1993 Miramax heard that TIME was about to run a story revealing that Jaye Davidson, the "female" lead in The Crying Game, was a man (hardly a scoop, since Davidson had won an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor). Furious, Harvey called a top editor 18 times in one day in an unsuccessful attempt to keep the nonsecret a secret...
Hickey, who transferred to Harvard last fall, knew his days at Davidson College were numbered. But he kept that secret from even his closest friends...
...Throughout the year, I wore two faces--the Davidson face and the transfer face," he says. "I felt dishonest and dirty...