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...Lear has the sort of temperament that might be described by Archie Bunker as "hebe Hollywood egghead" ? or, if Archie knew the word, compulsive. The only eye in the hurricane of activity that he whips up around him each day is the moment when he retires to the men's room for a thorough perusal of the New York Times. One of his two outside interests is writing letters to Presidents and other political leaders on such topics as Viet Nam, the ICBM debate and school desegregation. His voluminous correspondence with four Administrations is filed in a cabinet...
...Herb Gardner's memory play, Conversations with My Father, Eddie takes on the opposition over the course of 40 years. The thugs back off when he threatens them; they sense that this "crazy Hebe" would just as soon die as give them a dime. History is not so easily intimidated. When World War II begins, his adolescent son Joey (Tony Gillan), inflamed by news of the death camps, enlists in the Navy with tragic results. The surviving son, Charlie (Tony Shalhoub), becomes a prosperous novelist but fails at everything else, from marriage to filial affection. Zaretsky's very life...
...conclusion that "love levels all ranks." The rag woman reveals that she was nurse to the captain and Ralph at birth and that she switched them in their cradles. The show ends happily with all the lovers united and the arrogant Sir Joseph stuck with his cousin, Hebe...
...obedience law has been widely criticized, particularly by relatives of the 9,000 or more people who disappeared during the dirty war and are presumed dead. Declared Hebe de Bonafini, president of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, an organization of parents whose sons and daughters disappeared: "Obviously there was an agreement with the military. I don't think the government is with the people. It's like a dictatorship. Everything is fixed." Even Federal Prosecutor Julio Cesar Strassera, who led the government case against junta leaders two years ago, was quoted by a Spanish newspaper as calling...
...especially in the wake of the Oscar-winning movie "The Official Story," also recently suffered an unfortunate split over what are popularly rumored to be irreconcilable differences between its two leaders, both in personality and, more importantly, in sense of the group's mission. The main group, led by Hebe de Bonafini, has become fiercely and broadly political; while the small splinter group of Adela Antokaletz, it is said, has preferred to adhere to the original goal of gaining information on the disappeared. Neither side will discuss the other, but it is popularly rumored that Bonafini's hardline attitudes...