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...wise move by Edgar, much of Jane and Guilford's love story is left unscripted, director Nunn relying instead on long, music-filled shots of the two kissing by a bubbling brook, riding over pastoral fields and playfully tickling each other in the hayloft. Reminiscent of a more modern Love Story whose protagonists played touch football in a snowy Harvard Stadium, these sequences are much more effective than the written word in capturing the quick, physical passion of adolescent love...
...Brill's brief stay with the nuns--and subsequent months of hiding in the hayloft of a barn--reinforce rather than erode his convictions and faith in the human mind. Brill determines to bear witness to the atrocities of the Nazi's in an individual way: by fusing the tenets of his childhood rabbi with the teachings of his university...
...airplane near Dresden on April 21, 1945. It was one of ten aircraft carrying Hitler's staff and priority cargo from the bunker in Berlin where he killed himself nine days later. The diaries, remarkably preserved, had been pulled from the wreckage, reported Heidemann, and concealed in a nearby hayloft...
...which, when done right, is a dish to tempt a Paul Bocuse. A hand pump still stands proudly on a cistern. The rope hammock strung between the phi oak and the sugar maple is ragged but enduring, curving invitingly in the dusk. Hollyhocks fringe the small barn with the hayloft and the split door. The barn had been built for a new horse and buggy when Henry Ford was still considered a crank...
...there are 80, plus more than 100 houses employing non-union actors. (At non-Equity theaters, the performers often earn only tips by doubling as waiters and waitresses; the nuns' chorus from The Sound of Music, for example, may serve drinks at intermission.) For owners, the Hayloft in Manassas, Va., grosses $1.5 million a year, and the Firehouse in Omaha takes in $16,000 weekly-$9,000 of which is profit. Says Actors' Equity President Theodore Bikel: "Dinner theaters are the only success story in the theater today...