Word: gordon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...produced a film which seems to have changed his image in some men's eyes. The Trial of the Catonsville Nine, adapted by Daniel Berrigan from his own play, and filmed by Gordon Davidson--who staged the original production as artistic director of the Mark Taper Forum--is definitely radical in outlook. The figures it focuses on and attempts to heroicize not only damn the Vietnam War, but a general policy of American Third World influence which they view as evidence of economic imperialism...
Resentment grows deeper because we begin to feel cheated, not permitted to empathize with the characters, or even understand them, because they remain so immaculately aloof. This is partly the fault of Director Gordon Davidson, who has used his original company from the theater without having them scale down their acting for the screen. Peter Strauss's reserved and affecting Thomas Lewis is an exception, as is Flanders' creditable Daniel Berrigan. Almost everyone else-most irritatingly Douglass Watson as Philip Berrigan-plays for the rafters. Haskell Wexler's superb photography, however, effectively challenges the visual restrictions...
...life, however, flows richly enough through the original Beggar's Opera. The dominant motif-Gay's as well as Brecht's-is that money is thicker than blood. By now, the characters are classic, and they all live up to their names: Peachum (Gordon Cornell), the informer and fence; Lockit (Ralston Hill), the venal jailer of Newgate; and MacHeath (Timothy Jerome), the saucy highwayman who can down a wench as quickly as a cup of sack. As two of the ladies of his choice, Polly Peachum (Kathleen Widdoes) and Lucy Lockit (Marilyn Sokol) are erotic sprites...
...attrition in the ranks of America's spacemen is already becoming apparent. Apollo 12 Astronaut Dick Gordon recently quit to become executive vice president of pro football's New Orleans Saints, and Apollo 7 Astronaut Donn Eisele traded his NASA desk job for the directorship of the Peace Corps in Thailand. In August, Ed Mitchell, who staged an ESP experiment aboard Apollo 14, will leave the space program to pursue his intense interest in psychic phenomena. Apollo 15 Astronaut Jim Irwin, a Baptist lay preacher, will also retire, "to spend more time spreading the good news of Jesus...
...orbit the earth, made an unsuccessful bid for a Senate seat, and is now part owner of several Ohio motels. Mercury Astronaut Scott Carpenter is head of an oceanographic company, while Apollo 8's Frank Borman is a vice president of Eastern Airlines. Mercury and Gemini Astronaut Gordon Cooper has set himself up as a management consultant. Wally Schirra, of Mercury, Gemini and Apollo, when not acting as Walter Cronkite's sidekick during CBS's coverage of moon shots, runs an environmental research firm. Restless as NASA's deputy associate administrator for aeronautics, Neil Armstrong...