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DIED. Mary Coyle Chase, 74, a Colorado-born playwright and mother of three sons who wrote the 1945 Pulitzer-prizewinning play Harvey, an enchanting tale about Elwood P. Dowd, a gentle lush whose best friend is Harvey, a 6-ft.-plus talking rabbit that only Elwood could see and hear but two generations of Americans adored; of a heart attack; in Denver. A reporter for the Rocky Mountain News before she switched to playwriting, Chase was notably unsuccessful until Harvey suddenly brought her fame and fortune with its 1,775 Broadway performances and its remake as a movie starring Jimmy...
...itself a kind ol wound a private desolation. We all drive past the house where 'we grew up and stare at it oddly, with a strange ache, as if to extract some meaning from it that has been irrecoverably lost. In 1902 the genteel architect-writer Joy Wheeler Dowd wrote sweetly: "Every man or woman hopes one day to realize his or her particular dream of home." It did not have to be a Newport "cottage" or the Baths of Diocletian. It was a small internal grandeur that counted, the sense of refuge and privacy, the Marxist s "bourgeois...
...Coming Home. The movie starts to lose its grip on you after about the first hour, but it is nevertheless an excellent film. Perhaps its problems lie in the fact that there were too many cooks. Gilbert and Fonda took their original idea to the then untried scenarist Nancy Dowd, who has since won critical acclaim for her original screenplay of Slapshot. Over a year later, Dowd came up with a long, ultimately unusable screenplay. Next they approached Waldo Salt, an Oscar winner for Midnight Cowboy, who ended up writing the screenplay. He suggested producer Jerome Hellman. Hellman and director...
Like Nancy Dowd's script for Slap Shot, Casey's Shadow continually proves that men do not have a monopoly on first-rate sports reportage. Writer Carol Sobieski, working loosely from a story by John McPhee, takes a cynical attitude toward her characters' obsession with winning, and she leavens her familiar narrative with gritty bits of lore from the backwaters of quarter-horse racing. She accurately re-creates the arduous rituals of training, the sweaty romance of jockeying and the cracker-barrel humor of the eccentrics who build their entire lives around long shots...
...Crimson beat a hasty retreat in the final matches until Craig Beling appeared in the unlimited division. However, Beling's 7-5 lead disappeared when Cadet John O'Dowd tied the match, 7-7, with a takedown as the final buzzer sounded...