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Dodi made his professional mark as a Hollywood producer. The films he helped finance included the Oscar-winning Chariots of Fire, The World According to Garp and Hook. But for all his notoriety in the movie business, Dodi was unable to alter the fact that he would always be best known, in the lingo of Fleet Street, as "the playboy" from "the House of Harrods." His only marriage, to former model Suzanne Gregard, ended after eight months in 1987. In the past decade he had been linked romantically, if usually briefly, to a lengthy list of beautiful and often famous...
...Yugoslav-born Oscar-winning screenwriter of the 1979 film Breaking Away; of a heart attack; in Sydney, Nova Scotia. Tesich's works, which often dealt with social issues of his adopted U.S., included the plays The Carpenters and Division Street and the films Eyewitness and The World According to Garp...
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...