Word: gentleman
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...casting would have aroused excitement on Broadway. Joanne Woodward as Amanda Wingfield, the desperate matriarch. Karen Allen, star of Raiders of the Lost Ark and Starman, as the soulful daughter Laura. TV Star James Naughton (Trauma Center, Planet of the Apes) as Laura's "gentleman caller." And John Sayles, filmmaker (Return of the Secaucus Seven) and novelist (Union Dues), making his professional stage debut as Tom, the restless, seething son who narrates Tennessee Williams' doom-struck "memory play" about his family. Add a designer who has won a Tony nomination, a director who has mounted more than 100 productions...
...industry, or at least that part of it that handed out awards, was grateful: eleven of the first 20 Oscars for best direction went to immigrants, from Frank Lloyd (Cavalcade) and Frank Capra (It Happened One Night) to William Wyler (The Best Years of Our Lives) and Elia Kazan (Gentleman's Agreement...
...victorious World War II Allies, carefully distanced themselves from the U.S.-German ceremony. British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, normally a loyal supporter of Reagan policies, responded to a Labor M.P.'s attack in Parliament on the Bitburg visit by noting that "I have considerable sympathy with what the honorable gentleman said." In Paris, the French Secretary of State for European Affairs, Catherine Lalumiere, said her government "shares the emotion" unleashed by the cemetery imbroglio. Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney called Reagan's determination to proceed "a most unfavorable situation...
...least I learned my craft." People, meaning London critics and producers, began seeing him on the West End in 1931. By the beginning of World War II he had established a reputation in Britain and was able to sleep late on Sundays, just like any other English gentleman...
...saving to myself, would I talk to my daughter like, this?" O'Hara said. "The guy said. I We want to has sex with you. I'll give you money. This was a 7-year-old kid. Then you arrest the gay and you gotta treat like a gentleman. Sometimes it appalls you but life goes...