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...afternoon in New York City the director, dressed all in black, sat at his desk in his all-black production office, hustling deals. It is a Robert Altman sort of place. Just behind him is the neon onstage logo from his production of Come Back to the 5 and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, giving him a perfect glitzy-tacky roadhouse penumbra. An old cheese and some scraps of baguette sit on the coffee table, and beyond the table sits his William Morris agent, listening in on a phone extension as Altman assures someone else's agents that he really...
...Herb Gardner's memory play, Conversations with My Father, Eddie takes on the opposition over the course of 40 years. The thugs back off when he threatens them; they sense that this "crazy Hebe" would just as soon die as give them a dime. History is not so easily intimidated. When World War II begins, his adolescent son Joey (Tony Gillan), inflamed by news of the death camps, enlists in the Navy with tragic results. The surviving son, Charlie (Tony Shalhoub), becomes a prosperous novelist but fails at everything else, from marriage to filial affection. Zaretsky's very life...
...Senators -- Republican Robert C. Smith of New Hampshire and Democrat John Kerry of Massachusetts -- agreed that the way to bring American audiences "out of their chairs" these days was simply to say, in Smith's words, "We won the cold war, and we're not going to send one dime in aid to Russia." Replied Strauss: "Well, you know, I was back in the States not long ago, speaking to the national Governors' conference, and I got a standing ovation from them when I said, 'We cannot let this moment in history go by without our being involved. We must...
Customers noted yesterday that while the Square's look has changed rapidly in recent years, Olsson's had kept its old-fashioned, five-and-dime store look. The store still displays its merchandise on old bureaus and hutches resting on bare hardwood floors...
...worldwide depression, which partly inspired Japan's move into China, left most Americans unable to deal with anything beyond their own breadlines and Hoovervilles and, Brother, can you spare a dime? To the extent that they worried about foreign problems at all, they worried mainly about Adolf Hitler, who had seized Austria and the Czech Sudetenland in 1938, then demanded western Poland...