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...orchestra plods along slowly throughout. Musical Director Ellen Cogen seems to have worked more strongly on some numbers than others--the orchestra can often sound brilliant in one instance and like a fourth grade beginners group in the next. Both the set and the costumes seem to have come from Gilbert and Sullivan Central Casting, less the fault of the designers perhaps than of the Gilbert and Sullivan Society, which seems to regularly eschew creativity in favor of predictable bland productions...
...writes greeting-card verses and as a hobby handicaps horse races. Klugman plays a boozing, brawling professional bettor who discovers that Randall never picks the wrong horse and press-gangs him into partnership. In lesser roles are such familiar stage and screen faces as John Beal, Joey Faye, Ellen Greene, Julie Hagerty, Zane Lasky and Jerry Stiller. With John Tillinger, one of the ablest directors of comedy, at the helm, the show gives every promise of amusement...
...script by Robert Getchell, directed by Michael Caton-Jones, contains some elisions and some dramatic heightening, but nothing outrageous. It opens with a young Toby (nicely played by Leonardo DiCaprio) and his mother Caroline (Ellen Barkin) adrift in the West in the 1950s, looking for work. She's penniless, on the run from a broken marriage and an inappropriate lover. She has a good heart but not a very sensible one, and she falls in with Dwight Hansen (Robert De Niro), an auto mechanic from dreary Concrete, Washington...
...ride." Tobias grumbles only a bit. He doesn't think much of Getchell's script, which seems to him "a little banal and sitcomish, with a few cheap thrills thrown in." He objects to a rough sex scene between Robert De Niro, who plays the churlish stepfather Dwight, and Ellen Barkin, who plays the mother Caroline. (The Wolff brothers' mother is Rosemary in real life.) Tobias believes the sex scene breaks the film's point of view, since otherwise the entire action is observed through the boy Toby...
...Previous to desegregation every school had its own personality. By virtue of its location in the middle of academia, [Peabody] was a private school within the system," says Ellen M. Varella, acting principal of the Peabody School. "Even with desegregation, it still retains that flavor or reputation," Varella says...