Word: garnering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...script by playwright and television writer Larry Gelbart (M*A*S*H) focuses on the struggle between the two central characters: Johnson, played by James Garner, and Kravis, played by Jonathan Pryce, who starred in the Broadway hit musical Miss Saigon. People familiar with Wall Street will have serious problems with these two pieces of casting because Garner doesn't behave much like Johnson and Price doesn't look anything like Kravis...
...Garner, who has never met Johnson, and who deliberately avoided reading the book, plays him as a salty-mouthed backslapper who is always quick with a joke and whom everyone seems to like. Johnson comes off as a likable gasbag -- a rogue perhaps, but deep down inside an O.K. guy. Garner is simply too appealing to capture Johnson's reptilian qualities...
What prevents Barbarians from being truly outstanding is Garner's miscasting plus Gelbart's reluctance to pull the trigger on the conniving Johnson. Example: in one scene, the born-to-shop Dr. Cupcake tells Ross a heart- wrenching story about her leg waxer's cousin, who was dumped from his job of 18 years when KKR took over his company. Seeking to illustrate the human carnage of leveraged buyouts, she informs hubby that the man went home and shot himself. Johnson looks concerned. Here, the film is taking real liberties with the truth. This conversation did not take place anywhere...
...addition, the Black Students' Association and the Afro-American Cultural Society have both hosted speakers with little purpose other than a garner headlines. Recently, the latter brought Dr. Khalid Muhammed to speak. His talk was laced with inflammatory remarks that make Mansfield's seem like small change. Similarly, the BSA brought infamous racist and anti-semite Leonard Jeffries to campus last year, heightening tensions between the Black and Jewish communities...
Intellectual stimulation of such students will garner far more results than will financial incentives or regulatory controls. Introducing premeds to the complex and enlightening decisions our pediatricians and family practitioners make every day is just one way of generating enthusiasm for the vast rewards of practicing primary care...