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...already raised $184.000 for its trip and is counting on telethons, corporate donations and the performance to do the rest, according to Mary Fllen Gleason '84, director of development...
...extremely generous of her [Dwyer] to do it for us," Gleason said...
...films, two aging men without wives mope about the past; in the other, two aging women without husbands mope about the future. The characters all need rescuing. But forget the stories, here is a pair of pairs! Larry and Jackie (Olivier and Gleason), Liz and Carol (Taylor and Burnett). And what is unusual, apart from seeing such faces in made-for-cable movies, is that the predictable casting is reversed...
...Halpern and Mr. Johnson, which premiered on HBO Sunday and will be seen seven times through Sept. 13, presents Olivier as a cantankerous Jewish businessman inconsolable at the loss of Florence, his wife of 42 years. At the funeral, a prosperous-looking man in a chesterfield (Gleason) asks if he may drop a pink carnation in the grave. It seems that the stranger had met with Florence regularly but platonically during all those years. The remainder of the film is a conversation between the two in which their antipodal perceptions of the same woman-for Mr. Halpern...
...cantor, he seems to have stepped right out of the "oy vay" school of acting. Although he is not helped by dialogue that circles repetitively over the same terrain, his shrieking and spluttering become dull and annoying; he turns a simple character into a simple-minded one. By contrast, Gleason, the king of comedic excess, is a model of restraint as the spiffy Mr. Johnson. The two men's budding fondness for each other feels forced...