Word: gabriell
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Serge's relatives are presented in broad strokes: all his sisters suffer failing marriages and are differentiated only by their means of solace: Lucienne drinks and plans an affair. Monique pops mood pills, and Denise relies heavily on the comforts of the refrigerator. The aunts and the father Gabriel (Don Panec) have sketchier difficulties, the stereotyped problems of old age. Gabriel has one additional distinction--he has gone deaf beyond the reach of even the strongest hearing aid, and he dozes in a lonely world, fending off Serge's efforts to reach...
...self-doubt (the three emotions the playwright relies on), we might take the shaky underpinnings of the play on faith. But though Lowenfeld is intermittently believable, he has an unfortunate habit of substituting decibels for modulations in expression and timbre. His loud rages are contrived rather than compelled: Gabriel, rocking silently in his chair, is the more effective emblem of the family's failure to communicate without hurting. As Monique says after Serge has thoughtlessly ignored her: "That's the first thing we should learn in life, not to ask anyone for anything...
...freed from his own past if he becomes self-sufficient, but this means ignoring the plans of others. Tremblay doesn't quite follow through to the plot's implication--that for Serge freedom is incompatible with his need to communicate with and be loved by Nicole and Gabriel. Prolonged silence, the actor's anathema, seems the only escape from Tremblay's determinism. If his characters can't escape their child-hoods and have no outside arbiters to appeal to why should they talk about it at all? Why even say "Bonjour...
...come to Israel to practice law. Her first major client, a young Palestinian (Muhamad Bakri) caught sneaking into Israel, is attempting to secure legal right to the house he lived in as a boy. Prodded by her estranged husband (Jean Yanne) and provoked by the state prosecutor (Gabriel Byrne), by whom she has become pregnant, Hanna stands her ground, and nearly digs her own grave. By the end she is a spiritual sibling to Kafka's Joseph K.-a displaced person in a land where everyone tries to be reasonable and nothing makes sense...
BORN. To Debby Boone, 27, wholesome pop singer and daughter of Pat Boone, who recorded a 1977 hit single of You Light Up My Life, but has not lit up the charts since, and Gabriel Ferrer, 26, her manager, son of Actor José Ferrer and Singer Rosemary Clooney: twin girls; in Hollywood...