Word: helene
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Garp which is appropriately reflected in the other characters as well. The hero becomes "Sir Scum" and creates frantic medieval battles for his sons on the front lawn. He is constantly staring at the kids in awe. "I will never write anything that lovely." Garp tells his wife Helen (Mary Beth Hurt) after tucking sons Duncan and Walt into bed. Helen provides a steady and more serious influence throughout, and Roberta Muldoon (John Lithgow), the tight end-turned-transsexual effectively becomes the best friend a Garp could ever have. Even the puzzling Jenny Fields (Glenn Close), mother of Garp...
...Tesich continues to develop sincere relationships around off-beat but believable discussions. Shopping for a house, Garp and his wife watch calmly as a one-man plane crashes into the second floor of a prospective purchase. Comments the hero: "The chances of another plane hitting our house are astronomical, Helen. We'll take...
Close, as Jenny Fields, and Hurt, as Helen, also deliver solid performances when working with Williams or Lithgow. But these supporting actors fail to give their characters the magnetism Williams and Lithgow create. Garp's education, which occupies the first part of the film, gets the story off to a sluggish start because the scenes focus on Jenny Fields, whose character is underdeveloped in the film and whose eccentric behavior is thus cryptic...
...movement debated by Sens Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass) and Gordon Humphrey (R.N.H.) began a few years ago with activists like Dr Helen Caldicott speaking at rallies and enlisting people in the cause of disarmament...
...Helen Caldicott cannot do the job by herself, as powerful and as charismatic as she is. I particularly respect that she has given up totally her very fine and promising medical career to work on peace full time. Well let me be the second to do this...