Word: ferrer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cyrano de Bergerac, starring Jose Ferrer, Friday and Saturday, March...
Cyrano de Bergerac (1950) includes Jose Ferrer in a captivatingly romantic performance, perfectly suited to Edmond Rostand's lightweight romantic play. Eating half a macaroon, playing with his swords, swaggering about town, Ferrer is always as flamboyant as the part demands. Michael Gordon's direction is nothing special, and the rest of the cast is mediocre in this one-man show...
...always wanted to be a journalist and something else at the same time," he says. That dual ambition was partially satisfied when Ferrer won a Stanford professional journalism fellowship in 1968, entitling him to attend Stanford Law School for six months. Concentrating primarily on constitutional and criminal law, he resisted the urgings of a professor who wanted him to remain for a full degree and came back to TIME...
...this week's Essay, contact was somewhat difficult, for Ferrer did much of his writing in a hospital bed while undergoing further treatment for an injury received four years ago in a motorcycle accident. There was one advantage to being confined, he says. "The doctors got started very early in the morning, and after they were through there was nothing else to do but sit up and get to work." Ferrer relied heavily on background material supplied by Reporter-Researcher Harriet Heck, and on the files of Correspondent Friedel Ungeheuer from New York, Joseph Boyce from Chicago and David...
...chief difficulty is find ing and restoring to the profession its sense of duty to the continuing experiment of law. Some slight satisfaction can be salvaged from the current debacle if it helps restore to lawyers a renewed sensitivity to that most necessary Obligation. *José M. Ferrer...