Word: fabianism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jose Antonio DePena-Fabian, 24, who was booked in Boston last month under the alias Miguel Antonio Pena, is wanted in New York for murdering a Brooklyn man and wounding his friend. He faces charges of murder in the second degree, attempted murder in the second degree and unlawful possession of a firearm, police said...
...event of the decade will occur next month in ye olde and quainte Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. The tourist haven's Shaw Festival, one of North America's bigger and better theaters and the world's most faithful keeper of the flame for the white-bearded windbag of Fabian socialism, is sponsoring a debate premised on the heretical idea that its patron dramatist should be outranked as a playwright by his colleague Harley Granville Barker. Although recalled chiefly as producer (The Doctor's Dilemma), director (Major Barbara) or actor (Man and Superman) of many Shavian debuts, Granville Barker...
...Boom Boom" Grossman (Al's brother), well-played by Alan King as the intimidating gangster-type, threatens Fabian. If Al dies during Fabian's boxing fiasco, so does Fabian (foreshadowing?). And Boom Boom already has good reason to follow through: He hates Fabian because of confrontations in their favorite pub, plus Fabian's dream poses a potential threat to his own boxing promotion corporation...
...plot thickens with a few more characters: Add one brooding bartender (Cliff Gorman) who hates Fabian but agrees to loan him $12,000 the day before the big event (hint, hint?), the bartender's wife (Jessica Lange) who loves Fabian and a bookie who likes Fabian but will kill him if he reneges on his loan (a harbinger...
...cast does manage to present some adequate caricatures of their cardboard roles. DeNiro, as always, brings as much depth as possible to the doomed but hopeful Fabian. Lange, however, who acts best when expressing silent frustration with a cigarette, cannot even maintain an elementary New York City accent...