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Josh Preven plays Hoss, the paranoid lead. Hoss is a man near the top--afraid of those climbing up from behind and determined to unseat those above him. Preven is convincing and forceful as he handles lines that could all too easily have become overacted in the hands of someone less skilled...

Author: By Liza M. Velazquez, | Title: Tooth or Consequences | 11/17/1989 | See Source »

...Becky, Hoss' girlfriend, is played by Susan Levine. Relatively unexciting during the first act, Levine makes Becky shine in the second act, even though she has considerably less stage time. The tense scene in which she struggles alone against an imaginary, lust-ridden boy reveals Levine to be an actress of unflinching talent...

Author: By Liza M. Velazquez, | Title: Tooth or Consequences | 11/17/1989 | See Source »

...September, factional disputes prevented parliament from electing a successor. As his final act, Gemayel named General Michel Aoun, 53, commander of the mainly Christian Lebanese Army, to head an interim government. Muslim groups rejected Aoun and set up their own government headed by Gemayel's last Prime Minister, Selim Hoss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lebanon Nearing the Point of No Return | 4/17/1989 | See Source »

...whoa Nellie, oh my. What a dandy of a game--a hoss from the streets of Rio, steals the ball at midfield. Maradona, Maradona, Maradona, Fumble!!!! Whoops, GOAL! GOAL! GOAL! Oh, my, whoa Nellie...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: America and the Cup | 7/6/1988 | See Source »

...last week, in the explosion of a bomb aboard his military helicopter, Rashid Karami, 65, had served ten times as Lebanon's Prime Minister. The country's Maronite Christian President Amin Gemayel -- whose brother Bashir had been killed by a bomb in 1982 -- quickly named another Sunni Muslim, Selim Hoss, as acting Prime Minister. Suspects in the murder ranged from Christian Phalangists to Shi'ite radicals. At week's end Parliament Speaker Hussein Husseini, the government's ranking Shi'ite Muslim, resigned to protest the killing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lebanon: A Rare Bird Dies in Flight | 6/15/1987 | See Source »

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