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Unemployed actors look upon waiver work as a way to attract the attention of TV and movie agents; those who are lucky enough to be working enjoy the challenge of demanding scripts. This month, for instance, Hal Williams is busy from 5:30 a.m. until 6 p.m. playing Sergeant Ted Ross in the CBS series Private Benjamin. But four nights a week, he also appears for free as Boise McCanles in the L.A. Actors Theater production of Steve Carter's all-black Nevis Mountain Dew. "A play like this doesn't come along very often," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Desire Under the Palms | 2/1/1982 | See Source »

...more power than it possibly could in a 3,000-seat opera house. Brook has chosen his singers as much for their acting skills as for their voices. By tightening the plot he creates dramatic situations beyond anything envisioned by Bizet's librettists (Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy) or even by Mérim&233;e. In this version, Carmen and Micaela, Don José's girlfriend from back home, are direct rivals and have a real fight when Carmen carves a bloody cross on Micaela's forehead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Carmen, but Not Bizet's | 12/21/1981 | See Source »

After the Rent Control Board decided several seeks ago to recommend Imparato for the appointment, Acheson Callaghan, chairman of the board sent a letter to the other finalist. Hal Lieberman, saying that he was no longer under consideration for the appointment, Healy said Sunday...

Author: By Michael F.P. Dorning, | Title: City Hires New Rent Board Director | 11/24/1981 | See Source »

...Last Detail (1973) d. Hal Ashby (best actor, Cannes; Oscar nominee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Films of Jack Nicholson | 11/12/1981 | See Source »

...rural Southern lawyer. The actor has moved north to Gettysburg, Pa., for his next role, in The Blue and the Gray, an eight-hour CBS TV mini-series to be aired next March. Queuing up in a distinguished line that includes Walter Huston, Henry Fonda, Raymond Massey and Hal Holbrook, Peck, 65, is taking up stovepipe and chin whiskers to portray Abraham Lincoln. "I'm in seven scenes," says Greg, "but I only get to speak in five of them. That's because in the other two, I'm dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 9, 1981 | 11/9/1981 | See Source »

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