Word: dinners
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Cleary's son, Bill Cleary III '85, who played for the Crimson, used to tag along with his father when he was young. The Clearys have always thought of hockey as a giant family gathering--a huge dinner where everyone's invited. No wonder that tradition goes on at Bright. Coach Cleary is probably the biggest kid of them...
...people may not have known that the Wallace Shawn who was part of the conversation to end all conversations in My Dinner with Andre was not Wallace Shawn the philosopher, but Wallace the actor. Or as he said in an interview after giving a talk at Adams House, "In the movie we decided that Andre would say the crazy things, and I would say the bourgeois things...
Instead of grand pronouncements about urban life, Shawn told me that "My Dinner with Andre was quintessential of the Carter era--optimistic, cheerful. It could not be made in the Reagan era. In fact," he continued, "when I see Andre [Gregory], when we meet and talk, we always talk about politics. If we made the movie today we would both be obsessed with the political questions." Again the reality and illusion seemed to mesh too perfectly. He really meets and talks with that crazy guy, Andre. Yet as Wally explained, the issues he defended, some of which he "still believe...
...course, I could always retreat to the comfort of the illusory reality, or realistic illusion of My Dinner, which concluded with Shawn riding in a muttering, "I'll never forget my dinner with...
...long nights spent writing their initials inside little circles. The cashier at the A&P? The jogger with the Westie? The Captain confesses that he is much taken with that lanky public defender on TV, the one who never smiles and who dresses like Alcott and Andrews. Late dinner conversations on civil rights and torts (Have a tort?). How about Alcott, or Andrews...