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During high school, he played a Concert Artists' Guild recital in Steinway hall, played the Beethoven Third Piano Concerto with a local orchestra, and taught himself to accompany choral music on piano. It was this skill that brought him into the choral music circle that was blossoming his freshman year under "Woody"--G. Wallace Woodworth. Krieger accompanied the Glee Club throughout his undergraduate years, after which, in one of his two breaks away from Harvard choral music since 1955, he attended medical school at Western Reserve. During his time there, he accompanied the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus, under the direction...
After Vassar she toured Vermont colleges and ski areas for a few months with the Green Mountain Guild, a rep company, playing Shaw and Chekhov for $48 a week?"and it wasn't even the Depression." Then she made her commitment, and sent off an application to the Yale School of Drama. Yale awarded her a three-year scholarship and, as it turned out, the privilege of playing twelve to 15 roles a year...
...reporters and photographers to the White House Rose Garden, he read a gently phrased statement. "I respect the right of workers in the private sector to strike,"he said. "Indeed, as president of my own union, I led the first strike ever called by that union [the Screen Actors Guild, 1959]." But Government, he said, "has to provide without interruption the protective services which are Government's reason for being." He noted that Congress (in 1947) passed a law forbidding strikes by Government employees. He read aloud the nonstrike oath that each air controller, and indeed any federal employee, must...
...Director Joe Dante, with whom Sayles worked three years ago on an engaging Jaws rip-off called Piranha. Their new film drops latent or blatant references to a dozen low-budget horror movies; characters are named after some of the more mediocre talents ever to win a Directors Guild card (Lew Landers, Roy William Neill, Erle C. Kenton); Roger Corman, godfather to many young directors, makes a cameo appearance, as do Forrest Ackerman, editor of Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine, and Sayles himself. Trouble is The Howling is too insistent on parading its enshocklopedic knowledge to raise Hackle...
...elite will tux and tart themselves up, like 3,000 extras in some impossibly opulent '30s costume drama, for the movie industry's spring ritual of self-congratulation. In the packed Los Angeles Music Center they will hear a former B-movie swain and Screen Actors Guild president named Ronald Reagan deliver an address on the theme "Film Is Forever." They will bestow Academy Awards on their most envied colleagues. They will snicker as professional actors flub a three-line introductory speech. For the benefit of 80 million TV-watching Americans, the movie people will...