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...into Columbia Business School, I think some madman accepted me. When I got out of college, I went to New York, and I took writing classes, with Israel Horovitz and Joe Heller, and my family had me under a lot of pressure to go to business school, so I applied to Columbia Business School and I applied to Yale Drama School. I think I had like 400's on the business boards, and I had Joe Heller recommend me. So it was really weird...
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...Israel Horovitz' latest, Park Your Car in Harvard Yard, is a remarkably quiet play. It's about a man who went to Harvard and went back to his hometown on the Cape to reconcile himself to teaching high school. And it's about the woman who comes to live with him as his housekeeper who still holds a grudge against him for flunking her--along with her mother, brother, and husband--in music appreciation. Music and hearing are important themes in the play--in fact, there is little else overtly discussed during the entire first act. But the two characters...
...Broadway recently. To its credit, it's singularly lacking in Broadway appeal--no fanfare, no special effects, no rollerskates. Things build in a naturally inconspicuous way--after all the carping and the hostile silences and the general ill-will, it's remarkable how touching the last few scenes are. Horovitz, Marshall, and Plunkett seem to agree on something rare in American theatre--the power of subtlety...
PARK YOUR CAR IN HARVARD YARD. Israel Horovitz's Broadway play is sentimental, meandering and too full of coincidence, but Jason Robards and Judith Ivey make the most of encounters between a dying high school teacher and one of countless students he flunked instead of inspiring to do better...