Word: garp
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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John U. "Jack" Lemmon '47 attended Harvard, as did Frederick L. 'Grandy '70 ("Gopher" on "The Love Boat"), Susan W. Stockard-Channing '65, Frederick H. Gwynne '51 ("Herman" on "The Munsters"), John A. Lithgow '67 ("The World According to Garp"), among other actors...
...inner voice that must sound like Daffy Duck's), Ellen Barkin (with her bruised features and street-angel smile) and Jeff Goldblum (heartthrob of the Mensa sorority) clues Buckaroo Banzai as very chic scifi. Lithgow, the movies' Mr. Versatile (transsexual jock in The World According to Garp, bumbling lover in Terms of Endearment, incendiary preacher in Footloose), here does a manic turn as Dr. Lizardo; it is as if old mad Ezra Pound were played by Klaus Kinski. And Weller-his cobalt eyes borrowed from Paul Newman, his iron jaw from D.C. Comics-makes a stalwart Renaissance...
Richardson, who also wrote the screen play, has tried his hardest to be both free and faithful to the story, and with considerably more brio than was displayed in the lamentable screen adaptation of Irving's previous book, the wondrous The World According to Garp. As in the synopsis-defying novel, the Berry family muddles through the mismanagement of a bunch of hotels, half a dozen dalliances and more than any family's rightful share of abrupt deaths. Trouble is, both the film and the characters are as preposterously buoyant as the giant balloon animals in a Thanksgiving...
MARRIED. Mary Beth Hurt, 34, resourceful film and stage actress (The World According to Garp, Crimes of the Heart); and Paul Schrader, 37, kitschy film director (American Gigolo, Cat People); both for the second time; in Chicago...
...female are learning to exchange and fuse their too long separate and restrictive identities. Thus in the past year alone have audiences been instructed and entertained by movies like Victor/Victoria, in which a woman impersonates a man in order to impersonate a woman; and The World According to Garp, featuring John Lithgow as the transsexual ex-pro-football player with a heart of gold; and Tootsie, in which Dustin Hoffman, decked out as the soap-opera heroine Dorothy Michaels, both receives and delivers his revelation: "I was a better man as a woman with a woman than...