Word: garfield
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...Charles Dickens; concluded by Leon Garfield; André Deutsch; 327 pages...
...left with only the latter half of the novel, composed without the tone or richness of its predecessor. The reader might well sigh with Kate Perugini, Dickens' daughter: "In my father's grave lies buried the secret of his story." And yet ... and yet ... the Londoner Leon Garfield, 59, hitherto a writer of juveniles, composes his own conclusion to Edwin Drood, including Antony Maitland's new illustrations, happily capturing the Master's locutions: "Curious, bland, yet deeply various gentleman ... he was very like a convert to a new faith, who walks in the ways...
Directed by Ronald Neame Screenplay by Brian Garfield and Bryan Forbes
...Group Theater in 1931 to serve as an alternative to Broadway's commercial offerings; for ten years it provided a forum for playwrights like Clifford Odets and William Saroyan, introduced to the American stage the Stanislavsky Method of acting, and nourished such actors as Lee Strasberg, John Garfield, Cheryl Crawford, Lee J. Cobb and Stella Adler (Clurman's first wife). As a drama critic since the late 1940s, mostly for the Nation, he drew on enormous theatrical erudition, a prodigious memory and an insatiable delight in the arts. "I disapprove of much," he once said, "but I enjoy...
...wish had never dramatized these recent events from his life. The plot, no matter how true, still produces one of Simon's most uninteresting relationships. And we've come to expect quite a bit from the creator of Oscar and Felix, and, more recently, the wonderful role of Elliot Garfield in The Goodbye Girl...