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Screenplay by Beth Henley...
Movies are show; plays are tell. Here's one difference. In Beth Henley's 1984 off-Broadway hit The Miss Firecracker Contest, a seamstress named Popeye Jackson explained that as a child she "used to make little outfits for the bullfrogs that lived out around our yard." In this expansive adaptation, Popeye (Alfre Woodard) displays one such frog, cunningly coutured in a nurse's gown with matching stethoscope. Ah, the glamorous realism of the cinema! It's cute...
Despite losing five of the eight rowers from the boat that was invited to last year's Henley Regatta (which includes heavyweight boats), Harvard Coach Charlie Butt has reasons to be optimistic...
Also, Butt's three returning varsity rowers,Captain Eric Davis, John Leete and John Velyvis,will be joined by David Obura, who rowed two yearsago on the heavyweight JV boat and sophomore TedMarple, who won Henley races twice in high school...
...Radcliffe heavies and lights also maytravel this summer to the Henley Regatta for womenin England, an event which premiered last year...