Word: jesse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jess Velona is a member of the Executive Committee of the Democratic Club...
...hard to understand Diamond's attraction to the material, however, or his heavy emotional involvement with it. There are certain parallels with his own life. Like Jess, the character he plays in the movie, Diamond put aside what was expected of him in favor of what he hoped for. He dropped out of pre-med at New York University, spent some time as a staff writer for an assortment of Tin Pan Alley companies, then finally rented himself a storage room with a piano and a pay phone and set out to write on his own. He had three...
Ruddy-hued Stormy Loftus (Thomas A. Carlin) is a bustling contractor flush with building schemes. His wife Jan (Charlotte Moore) is an alabaster-pale monument to worthy causes. Stormy's best friend, Jess White (James Greene), sells wallpaper, but his wallet is bare thanks to six children, whom his wife Myra (Pauline Flanagan) counts as the blessed bounty of God. Ruggedly handsome Richard Halvey (David Canary), whose wife Trina (Swoosie Kurtz) dresses and acts half her age, has a gnawing lust in his loins for Jan Loftus...
...Jess Velona, Chairman...