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...final project of the course required students to research a company that they thought might be ripe for takeover, and Edelman offered a finders fee of $100,000 to any student whose research he actually implemented, said Frederick A. Jacobi '43, the school's director of public affairs...
...remote control is the unifying image in Amazon Women, an anthology of satirical sketches about our age of Television and the Short Attention Span. In an early sketch, Lou Jacobi plays a man who accidentally aims his remote control at himself and winds up on whatever program happens to be on his set. For the rest of the movie, an instant of television static, as if someone were changing channels, appears between each sketch...
...pieces-Cyrano's duel while composing a poem, the balcony scene in which the shy cavalier ventriloquizes his love for Roxane (Sinead Cusack) through the voice of his friend Christian (Tom Mannion), and Cyrano's lingering death-Hands does go full throttle. So does the star, Derek Jacobi, in the rising-geyser cadences that just about every serious English actor of the past 20 years has borrowed from Laurence Olivier. In his best roles Jacobi finds heroism in gray ordinariness: the stammering honesty of Claudius in TV's I, Claudius, the grace and pain beneath the raillery...
...jealousy at center court, Beatrice and Benedick stood on the sidelines, exchanged waspish badinage and transformed supporting roles into star turns. This time around, Sinead Cusack (who need no longer be known only as Mrs. Jeremy Irons) makes Beatrice every inch the lady of hide-pendent mind. Derek Jacobi's Benedick begins abubble with adolescent spirits, sighing and whinnying like a high school boy who won't admit that he is in love with the college queen. As flirtation ripens into passion, Jacobi's performance becomes calmer and more mature. This Benedick finally recognizes that first love...
...witty lovers Benedick and Beatrice are delightfully played by Derek Jacobi (Claudius in PBS's 1977 series I, Claudius) and Sinead Cusack. Directed by Terry Hands, this Much Ado is helium powered...