Word: glover
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nichols, among others, to Broadway and Hollywood--but the new generation is holding on fiercely to what they have built back home. Having savored the East and West coasts, they insist on returning to the heartland. Their commitment is yielding a season any city might envy. Last week Danny Glover, the busiest black actor in Hollywood (The Color Purple, Witness, Silverado), made his Chicago stage debut at Steppenwolf's intimate--and perforce uncommercial--211- seat space in Athol Fugard's A Lesson from Aloes. A few blocks away, William Peterson, star of the film thriller To Live...
...movies gets prettier and prettier, Celie's life gets worse and worse. Her new husband beats her and separates her from her best friend and sister, Nettie (Akosua Busia). "Mister" (Danny Glover), as she affectionately refers to her betrothed, proves to be a real downer: he steals Celie's mail, sleeps around with other women, and makes his wife do ninety-percent of the work on their farm. At the film's halfway point, Celie is still cleaning vividly-hued ketchup and mustard stains while the tyrant goes off to try to rekindle an old romance with a famous blues...
...Nettie has gone as a missionary, behind a Georgia bush; Celie looks up from her hymnal and--wham!--a bulldozer crashes through the chancel of Nettie's church thousands of miles away. None of this bravura, though, has liberated the attractive cast. Whoopi Goldberg suffers knowingly as Celie; Danny Glover, as "Mr.," looks vainly for a note to strike besides befuddled menace; Margaret Avery inhabits Shug without illuminating her. Everyone seems reluctant to let loose here, taking a cue from their too reverent boss. Perhaps The Color Purple demanded a cannier, more daring director: Steven Spielberg. The Good...
...NOTEBOOK: Tonight's final will be held at 8 p.m., with the consolation game at 5:30 p.m.... TCU's Carol Glover turned in the performance of the evening in a losing cause against Lehigh: 20 points, 11 rebounds, 5 assists, 2 steals...The Crimson won the fifth annual tourney in 1982 with a 56-54 victory over William & Mary and captured the crown again last year by knocking off Brooklyn, 76-74, in overtime...Harvard was also 4-2 after its first six contests last year--but then went on to lose 16 of its last 20 games...
...Glover, as George, also plays at this bi-level portrayal of his character. At first glance George is embarrassingly and pathetically a dork. He sort of lopes along, peering timidly at girls and unconsciously pushing back his recalcitrant, oily locks. But Glover rescues George from unredeemable wimpiness by infusing his soul with a little bit of the poet, and a little bit of the knight in shining armor. He convinces us that George, for all his bumbling, might win Lorraine...