Word: hacketts
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...Diary of a Young Girl (edited by Otto Frank and published in 1947) omitted a good deal of material that her father deemed unsuitable, from Anne's criticisms of her mother to her musings about sex. The Broadway play, written by the husband-wife screenwriting team of Albert Hackett and Frances Gooodrich (It's a Wonderful Life), prettied up the diary even more, downplaying specifics of Nazi crimes against the Jews and recasting the story as a universal tale of suffering and hope. The Hackett-Goodrich version supplanted an earlier, more faithful adaptation written by Jewish novelist Meyer Levin, which...
...material with the original. These additions, mostly accounts of Anne's developing sexuality and her stormy relations with her mother and sister, were edited out of the original publication of the diary by Anne's father Otto Frank, the sole survivor of the family. Since Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett's original script already portrayed Anne as a disarmingly "real" character, Kesselman's adaptation doesn't enhance the play with much new emotional depth. Yet it certainly doesn't prevent this production from being a cleanly performed and eloquently realized retelling of Anne Frank's story...
...experience of women at Harvard is via Radcliffe," says Martha E. Hackett '83, an active alumna. "You can't talk about [the history of women's experiences at Harvard] without including Radcliffe...
...Like Hackett, Kavita Kacholia '98, co-president of Radcliffe Union of Students, said Radcliffe should be included in any celebration of women at Harvard...
Among these comedians were Buddy Hackett, Tim Conway, Paul Rodriguez and Judy Gold, a writer for "The Rosie O'Donnell Show," all of whom, according to Ilagan, are "as funny off stage as on stage...