Word: hardens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Linda Isaacs-Ausman, Tim Schlax Dallas: Matt Turck (Manager) Detroit: Jeff Cornish (Manager); John Wattles Los Angeles: Tom Ott (Manager); Lisa Bentley, Brett Wilson New York: Dick Raskopf (Director); Peter Krieger, Maureen McAllister (Managers); Rick Anderson, Laurie Benson, Bruce Beresford, Peter Britton, Mike Callahan, Joan Campo, Chris Carter, Russ Harden, Tom Kealy, Bruce Kostic, Lisa Lockley-Martinez, Dave Thomas, Teri Wagner San Francisco: Fred Gruber (Manager); Jay Howard Washington: Hal Bonawitz (Manager...
...chief difference is that, as written by Todd Graff and directed by Beeban Kidron, this lower- middle-class New York City family is glumly dysfunctional instead of chipperly so. The matriarch is newly widowed Pearl (Shirley MacLaine), and oy, has she got troubles. One of her daughters (Marcia Gay Harden) is developing multiple personalities based on celebrity models. The other (Kathy Bates) is fighting fat and single-mom bitterness. Grandma (Jessica Tandy) is, perhaps sensibly, threatening to move to Florida...
...these climbing-to-the-top scenes, and in its portrayal of Sinatra's career slump in the late '40s, when record sales dipped, his marriage crumbled and he even made a botched suicide attempt. His marital infidelities get ample attention, particularly his stormy affair with Ava Gardner (Marcia Gay Harden). Along the way, he is portrayed as an egotistic hothead with a politically correct tint: when a hotel clerk tries to deny a room to black band member Sy Oliver, Sinatra bullies the fellow into turning over...
...send a child to a private college for four years. Many are convinced that if they were much richer -- or much poorer -- money would not be a problem. Some view a private- college education as an entitlement, much like unlimited high-tech health care. Such attitudes harden during difficult economic times and a tight job market, when a degree from a top school becomes all the more precious just when it is hardest to afford...
...with Colonel Rheault, seem indisputably guilty, however tragic the circumstances. But by the time Stein is finished, in Kafkaesque fashion no assumptions remain unchallenged. War, Stein implies, defies moral judgment, though judgments must be drawn. One such judgment was drawn by Daniel Ellsberg: the Green Beret case served to harden his determination to publish the Pentagon papers. The rest, as they say, is history...