Word: glenda
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Round and round paddles Neaera Duncan (Glenda Jackson). She lives in a tiny walk-up and is a blocked children's book writer. She has taken to keeping a solitary water beetle in an aquarium, hoping that it will inspire...
...revival that opened on Broadway last week after a successful run in London, Glenda Jackson & Co. are having a bit of fun with Strange Interlude, and the audience is making fun of it. Does the play deserve these responses? To an extent, yes. O'Neill was aiming for ultramodern tragedy in his tale of Nina Leeds (Jackson) and the men in her life over a quarter-century's time. Nina is an Everywoman, crippled by her need to be all women. To her dead sweetheart Gordon she must be a faithful widow. To her widowed father (Tom Aldredge) she must...
...Krogers: they have fabricated their personal histories, and are suspected to be part of a Soviet spy ring. But Pack of Lies, a West End hit now on Broadway, is only secondarily about espionage. As in his play and film Stevie, a small masterpiece that starred Glenda Jackson, Whitemore is more interested in private drama: the anguish of having to uproot one's bedrock beliefs about people, the calamity that results when global politics intrude on quiet lives...
...only seen the extremes of America, either New York or Los Angeles. I've never been in what I call 'real America' before," said Glenda Jackson, 48, from the heartland. This week the English stage and film star finishes a four-week stint in Scranton, Pa., where she has been trying out one of her most challenging roles-that of university professor. Accompanied by her son Daniel, 15, Jackson has been on a working vacation at the Jesuit-run University of Scranton, teaching a master class in acting for a hand-picked group of twelve students from...
...film--presented by Home Box Office (HBO)--will be shown nationally in mid-September, and stars Glenda Jackson and Jason Robards...