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...Nancy Ellen Abrams Santa Cruz, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 20, 1983 | 6/20/1983 | See Source »

...Gable, however, who has just gone out to get some food and a toothbrush, soon returns and dominates her life once more. He has had her dress pressed and sends her to the showers while he fixes breakfast. Whereas the night before he was playing father to Ellen, he now becomes her mother as well. In a famous sequence, he teaches her how to properly dunk and eat a donut. It seems as if he is always "teaching" her something, constantly asserting his control and superiority over her. When her father's detectives show up looking for her, Ellen...

Author: By Marie B. Morris, | Title: Saints, Proust and Baseball | 6/8/1983 | See Source »

...conversation turns to love and marriage. Ellen tells him that he could probably make some girl "wonderfully happy" and by the look on her face we are certain that she is talking about herself. Peter, however, must always appear to remain in control of the situation so he tells her that he has not met the right girl...

Author: By Marie B. Morris, | Title: Saints, Proust and Baseball | 6/8/1983 | See Source »

Other laxwomen on the first team include DenHartog, Jennifer White and Jeanne Pierstak, on the second team. Trina Burnham and Cricket Johnson, and garnering honorable mention Ellen Velie and Magic Hart...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scoreboard | 5/18/1983 | See Source »

...three men and three women who make up the Collaboration are hardly standup comics. Ellen Holbrook, the founder of the group, has modeled the Collaboration on a completely different brand of comedy. They don't work against the audience--they work with it. A native of Chicago and a long-time employee of the Second City Theater there, Holbrook has taken her cue from that city's improve tradition...

Author: By Thomas J. Meyer, | Title: Anything Can Happen | 5/16/1983 | See Source »

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