Word: holbrooke
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Miller depicts what he calls "the tragedy of the working class" in Willy Loman (Hal Holbrook), a salesperson whose idealism leads him to ignore his status as an insignificant cog in the American economic machine. Even when his favorite son, Biff (Matt Mulhern), confronts him with this reality as his wife Linda (Elizabeth Franz) watches in tears, Willy refuses to acknowledge his mediocrity...
...production's saving graces are Holbrook and Mulhearn. There would be no reason to see this production without their performances. Holbrook captures Willy in all his passion and idealism. He communicates the American past as if it had all the immediacy of the present. Failure to identify with him does not prevent feelings of pity from rising from his sincere performance...
Others criticize Cuomo's record in office. "Time and time again [Cuomo] has failed to deliver on promises," says Victor Chiappa '98 of Holbrook, New York. "For example, he hasn't cut taxes and he hasn't increased state aid for education...
...scope of Twilight is far removed from the simplicity of one-person shows of a generation ago, mostly readings at a lectern. Sometimes the performer impersonated the author with costume and makeup, as Hal Holbrook did in evoking Mark Twain. Sometimes an actor merely read passages stirringly, as Eileen Atkins did for Virginia Woolf. Worth is now doing the same for Wharton; she just ended an entrancing off-Broadway run and has upcoming dates in Princeton, New Jersey, and at London's Royal National Theatre. "I am not remotely taking on Wharton's persona," Worth says. "I never...
...movie begins sharply, laying out the panoply of privilege: the sleek cars, the comfortable faces (Gene Hackman, Hal Holbrook). It's like going on a shopping spree at Neiman Marcus and then getting whacked with the bill: here is the middle class's Faustian bargain of big money and sapping compromise, of anxious wives and Stepford lives. How handsome the paneling on a lawyer's desk -- as handsome as the paneling on a lawyer's casket. At Bendini, Lambert & Locke, death is the penalty for abusing the rule of confidentiality. Harvard Law whiz Mitch McDeere (Tom Cruise) will break that...