Word: hamme
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conceived by Beckett, Endgame is a verbal battle between men on the verge of extinction. His stage directions call for a bare interior, grey light, and two small windows. The only furniture is an armchair and two garbage cans. In the armchair sits the blind Hamm who spends all his time lording over his adopted son Clov, who proves mysteriously, incapable of disobedience to Hamm's tyrannical dictates. Hamm's ancient and dying parents, Nag and Nell, dwell in the garbage cans...
...fine cast helps considerably, Clov, played by John Bottoms, embodies the desperation of a man at the end of his rope, he hisses at Hamm like a confused animal trapped in a cage. Rodney Hudson is superb as Nagg. He is a frightened and helpless old man without the innocent irrationality that makes the similar state of infancy bearable. When Nell dies, his face twists in heartbreaking agony as he sinks into his garbage...
...with surging revenues from the state's rebounding aerospace and defense industries, the changes have resulted in a projected 1984 surplus of $440 million and a 1985 surplus of $1.2 billion. "Ours is one of the most elastic tax bases in the country," says California Legislative Analyst William Hamm. "Our sales, income and corporate profits taxes respond directly to the economy...
Directed by Carroll Bollard Screenplay by Curtis Hanson, Sam Hamm and Richard Kletter...
...David B. Hamm...