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...participated in the process and felt it was the best deal we were going to get," said Gladys P. Gifford, president of the Harvard Square Defense Fund, one of the groups consulted...
Brinkley has been seeking a panel of interviewers who would "set off rockets," and he may be getting close. For this, chemistry is all-the chemistry that produced Huntley-Brinkley, or on football Mondays offers the ill-assorted, oddly compatible Frank Gifford, Howard Cosell and Dandy Don Meredith. Perhaps Brinkley and Arledge hoped for someone as abrasive as Cosell in choosing Ben Bradley, the executive editor of the Washington Post...
...ACTING PERFORMANCES are uneven, although some fine efforts escape the limitations of the plot. The play's link with the sixties comes in the form of Greenie (Allen Gifford), the owner of the band's recording studio, who injects the struggles of two decades past, offering a suitably Messianic and inspirational figure to the jaded and cynical boys of the eighties. Brooks Whitehouse as Frank Mills, the leader of the band, and Dede Schmeiser as Donna Barona, his groupie girlfriend, on the other hand, fall a little short: Whitehouse a little stiff and stylized in his portrayal of an already...
...transition smoothly, expressing its shock and despair at the prospect of its leader's death with equal conviction to that of its previous jubilation. In a brilliantly staged scene, the hanging on the cross is reenacted with the disciples tearfully watching and, ironically, helping to hang Christ (Allen Gifford) on a cleverly designed cross. Gifford really appears to swing from the structure, and the image is frighteningly effective as he calls out for help, "Father, I am dying!." swaying tenuously up near the ceiling. After his death, silence fills the theater until, resuming and even surpassing its former level...
...other faiths and non-believers, the message carries similar, although more measured, validity. Teague has gone out of her way to add references and touches that attempt to include Jews among the believers to whom the musical appeals (as much as any about the life of Christ can), having Gifford speak a benediction in Hebrew, for instance...