Word: director
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...anyone who has padlocked a camp director in his cabin, stolen every piece of detachable hardware from the showers, hidden a head cook's Beetle in the middle of the archery range, run the reveille record up the flagpole . . . Meatballs [July 16] is summer camp. I'll sing camp songs with Bill Murray any time...
Inevitably, the refugees pay in shattered hopes for the administrative confusion and excessive red tape. When vacancies appear in a country's quota, refugees are ordered to go, even if the country is Norway and their relatives are in Arizona. Says Hong Kong's UNHCR Director Angelo Rasanayagam: "We take the necessary measures to those who refuse an offer. We explain the realities. We disabuse them of their illusions." Explains one volunteer caseworker who quit a Hong Kong refugee program in disgust: "Those who refuse are told they'll go to the bottom of the list...
DIED. Jules Irving, 54, co-founder and codirector, with Herb Blau, of the San Francisco Actor's Workshop (1952-65), artistic director of Lincoln Center's Repertory Theater and experimental Forum (1967-73), and later a TV director (Rich Man, Poor Man); of a heart attack; in Reno...
DIED. George Seaton, 68, prolific, perdurable screenwriter (The Song of Bernadette, 1944), producer (The Bridges at Toko-Ri, 1955) and director (Airport, 1970); of cancer; in Beverly Hills, Calif. The original Lone Ranger on radio, at 22 Seaton went to Hollywood to work on comedy scripts, including the 1937 Marx Brothers' A Day at the Races. At 28 he began a partnership with Producer William Perlberg that brought Seaton two Oscars: for the screenplay Miracle on 34th Street (1947) and for his adaptation of the Clifford Odets play The Country Girl...
...last. Or did it? Berg left the orchestration of the third and final act unfinished at his death in 1935. For years the work had to be performed in truncated form. In Paris, Conductor Pierre Boulez unveiled the full score as completed by Viennese Composer Friedrich Cerha. But Director Patrice Chéreau's eccentric staging reflected as much Chéreau as Berg, and many of the composer's dramatic intentions remained unfulfilled...