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...confluence came in a rare Gregory Corse reading last April. Corse, originally a New Yorker but known as one of the wildest of the Fifties San Francisco Beats, joined with Kuzminsky (cursing in Russian), Clausen (singing and bellowing for all people who didn't know how to write), and Eleanor Crockett (descendant of Davy), whose magnetic subleties floated above the gut level expression of the men with whom she shared the stage...
...DIED. Eleanor Grace McClatchy, 85, pioneering woman publisher who for 42 years ran McClatchy Newspapers, Inc., a chain that includes the Sacramento, Fresno and Modesto Bees in California, the Anchorage Daily News in Alaska and other dailies; in Sacramento. McClatchy was a playwrighting student at Columbia University when her father's death in 1936 propelled her into the presidency of the company. She was aggressive in acquiring one television and several radio stations, and in using her newspapers' influence to champion liberal candidates and causes, but personally she remained extremely reticent. In a rare interview, she once said...
...extremes. The film swerves between irony and sentimentality, human drama and melodrama, powerful acting and shameless hammery-sometimes in the same sequence or shot. Screenwriter Carlino and Director Petrie have previously worked in the genres of sci-fi schizophrenia (Seconds and Sybil) and domestic conflict (The Great Santini and Eleanor and Franklin). Here, they have tried to blend the two forms, but the film does not always gel. The problem may stem from a lack of faith in its "small," challenging story. When in doubt, Carlino inserts a violent climax, or Petrie thrusts Edna Mae into an afterlife that looks...
...TURN Directed by Claudia Weill Screenplay by Eleanor Bergstein
...Eleanor Possavino Allison Park...