Word: irvins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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TURTLE DIARY Two eccentrics (Glenda Jackson and Ben Kingsley) rescue a pair of tortoises from imprisonment at the London zoo. Harold Pinter writes comedy without wasting sentiment, John Irvin directs it without wasting motion...
...parental essay on the child, 1,500 applications pour in each year for 86 places in the pre-K and the kindergarten classes. The Sidwell Friends School in Washington (tuition: up to $5,000) sifts 300 applications for 28 pre-K spots so coveted that former Admissions Director Georgia Irvin received phone calls saying, "We're planning a family and we wondered, Is it really better (for admissions) to have a baby in November or April...
Directed by John Irvin...
...Turtle Diary just to hear Glenda Jackson pronounce the word "turtle." She utters the word with the same subtlety which John Irvin uses to direct the film, both understated and graceful to the ear as well...
...going to avoid cliche resolutions. It is the same with his characters. They come to life as familiar figures, but they take on what one suspects will be an infinite life in memory because of their awkward singularity. Jackson and Kingsley are great somber comedians under John Irvin's quietly assured, tactfully ironic direction. Amazing how the unspoken can resonate, astonishing how much can be implied with a small, deft gesture. It may be that Turtle Diary is advancing a radical proposition: good can arise as an unintended consequence of self-absorption as readily as it can from more overt...