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...panel discussion organized by the Cambridge Forum, Skocpol was joined by Marshall Ganz, lecturer at the Kennedy School of Government, and Karen M. Paget, a member of the advisory committee on women's studies in religion at the Harvard Divinity School, all of whom spoke of the roles of progressive values in American politics in front of about 50 listeners at the First Parish church in Cambridge...
...impatient proximity to Robin Williams, playing a failed playwright-poet named Dale Putley. "You know from the outset that their quest will quickly become a shared one, that the hip careerist and the careerless former hippy will bicker and ultimately bond. You can?t say the script by Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel makes the most of this contrast -- too many side trips into bathroom humor -- but it does feed the stars enough decent patter to keep them ticking in their disparate ways." Reitman does provide two nice casting surprises: the formerly hot Nastassja Kinski as the sweetly scheming...
...WOMEN? GRAY'S QUERULOUS, chain-smoking, scatterbrained Chris matches husband Ken for droll facial expressions. In this respect, she edges Catherine M. Ingman '98, who plays sharp-tongued, slightly scornful Claire Ganz. Both, however, are upstaged by Jordanna M. Brodsky '99 as a hilariously dippy, brocade-clad Julia Child-like chef--aptly named Cookie--married to Ernie. Indeed, the odd-couple of Hawkes and Brodsky wins hands-down as the best pairing in the show, and it's a tribute to their skill that the somewhat corny physical humor delineated to them (especially Cookie) becomes irresistibly funny in their hands...
...cast rises magnificently to the occasion. They're all so good that it's difficult--if not impossible--to pick out particular stars. Among the men folk, it's a toss-up between Erik Amblad '98-'99 as the jovial but whiplash-afflicted and increasingly harried tax analyst Lenny Ganz, who takes over from Ken as mise-en-scene of "keeping up appearances," and Jesse J. Hawkes '99 as the psychotherapist Ernie Cusack, who's at once the shrewdest and the farthest off-base of the entire party...
...Ganz, who teaches a Harvard course on community organizing, spoke about his experiences working with agricultural activist Cesar Chavez and other prominent agitators. He urged the students to seek their own career paths, rather than following the ones society prescribed...