Word: gwenn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dodger's wife, has lost 10 Ibs. Virtually all the cast have cuts, bruises or splinters to show for their pains, and Seale, 70, has developed bursitis in his knee. Whitehead sums up the experience by telling the story of a man who went to visit Edmund Gwenn as the vintage actor languished on his deathbed. "It must be hard, very hard, Ed," the friend offered. "It is," Gwenn replied. "But not as hard as farce." And not nearly as funny. -ByDenise Worrell...
Dying is easy," said Actor Edmund Gwenn at the end of his life. "Comedy is difficult." Perhaps that is why so many writers shun the genre. But there is a more salient reason. As Woody Allen sadly observes, "When you do comedy, you are not sitting at the grownups' table...
Sophomore miler MAUREEN GILDEA, and juniors GWENN GORMAN and PAM STONE were selected as the 1981-'82 swim captains at the squad's banquet Monday night at the European Restaurant in Boston's North End. Renowned for their gastronomic prowess, the swimmers lived up to their reputation as they downed unlimited quantities of pizza, chicken cacciatore, wine, and a specially-made pecan and chocolate buttercream cake... After the awarding of varsity and junior varsity letters and numbers, departing co-captains DEBBIE JACOBS and KATIE KELLEY gave out special honors to team members for their better splashes outside of the pool...