Word: garp
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Ever since the roaring critical and commercial success of The World According to Garp (1978), the arrival of a new John Irving novel has been an occasion for intense interest and sometimes febrile arguments. Irving fans applaud his jam-packed plots, his innocent heroes (the line from Garp to Gump is not hard to draw) and his overt, Dickensian sympathy for damaged or endangered children. Critics retort that Irving's heart may be in the right place, but his head is not -- that he actually exploits for shock value the very characters whose welfare he pretends to champion...
While many students may know John Lithgow '67 from his numerous film and stage roles- including his Academy Award- nominated performance in the "The World According to GArp" and "Terms of Endearment" and his Tony- winning performance in M. Butterfly- most are probably unaware that he is on the Board of Overseers of HArvard. Lithgow has always maintained a strong interest in the well being of his alma mater, particularly of its arts community; and he is the chief organizer of ArtsFirst, a weekend- long and campus- wide celebration of HArvard's vibrant creative community that will take place from...
Although he says his stage acting has always been more meaningful, Lithgow began a long movie career with The World According to Garp...
During most of the time America was falling in love with Williams -- charmed by his TV character Mork, thrilled by his semi-improvisational comedy on cable-TV specials, charmed again by his early movie roles (in Moscow on the Hudson, in Garp) -- his life was pretty much a mess. "I think I had my mid- life crisis at around 27," says Williams, who was 26 when Mork & Mindy went on the air. In addition to too much trivial sex, there was too much vodka and bourbon and way too much cocaine. "It was like symbiotic abuse. It was Dr. Jekyll...
John Lithgow THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP. Cast as a transsexual former pro football player, Lithgow gave an unsmirking performance and won a 1982 Oscar nomination...