Word: jacoby
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...TENTH MAN (CBS, Dec. 4, 9 p.m. EST). Anthony Hopkins and Derek Jacobi lead a blue-chip British cast in Graham Greene's story about a French lawyer, imprisoned by the Nazis during World War II, who bargains to save his skin...
Although a chronological account of Turing's life might make a solid social- problem drama, Whitemore and Lead Actor Derek Jacobi, who shared in the play's conception, plainly wanted something beyond gay-rights advocacy. In successive productions they have focused ever more on the intellectual insights that made Turing unique without losing either his eccentricity or his humanity. The complex structure of flashbacks and flash forwards, monologues and dreamlike incidents is meant to convey something of the flavor and psychological sources of his genius. Much like Mozart in Amadeus, this sophisticated thinker seems suspended emotionally in adolescence. As Turing...
...Jacobi, a Shakespearean best known in the U.S. for the title role in the PBS mini-series I, Claudius, again employs fidgety mannerisms. But Turing emerges distinctly in his fierce, futile independence. Although joined by fine, mostly British actors -- Jenny Agutter, Michael Gough and Rachel Gurney among them -- Jacobi gives what approximates a masterly one-man show. In a brilliantly calibrated scene near the end, he makes Turing's happiest moment also serve as a sad metaphor for his yearning, and inability, to communicate. He enfolds himself in the arms of a Greek youth, neither able to speak the other...
...Edelman to withdraw his offer, but Edelman said he couldn't withdraw an offer made in good faith. When faced with the threat of no longer being able to teach the class, he agreed to withdraw the offer only if Burton would come to class and explain the situation, Jacobi said...
Despite the dean's ruling, after his announcement the class participated in a straw poll in which 13 of the 14 students attending sided with the professor, Jacobi said...