Word: director
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Good Cheer to Jack Reardon, athletic director...
Brustein can officially cheer from the Harvard bleachers now that the Board of Overseers approved his appointment as director of the Loeb Drama Center, starting in the fall of 1980. Both the Corporation and the Overseers voted Monday to appoint Brustein director, allowing him to lead an undergraduate drama program and base a professional repertory company at the Loeb...
...weren't for the director's dead-weight, this movie could probably rollick to success. All the elements are there--from Falk's bumbling to Warren Oates's sensitive performance of the gang member who cracks and blows the whistle on the thieves just two weeks before the statute of limitations runs out. Even the post-war Boston setting is faithfully captured, right down to the graffiti on the subways. But the film never takes off. At the end the robbers are led, one by one, past cheering crowds outside the courtroom. It's staged curtain call...
Falk sometimes manages to escape the director's slow pace. His portrayal of the thief with the heart of gold never falters. When he accidentally discovers that the Brink's fortress is no more than a poorly protected warehouse of money waiting to be hit, he rushes out and buys his wife a 100 per cent muskrat coat to celebrate his upcoming...
Dales and Fitzgibbons also chatted for awhile with Dave Marr, the director of golf at April Sound and a leading professional golfer before he became commentator on ABC-TV. Marr noted that he had once attended a class at Harvard. Fitzgibbons casually replied, "I once went to a class...