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Conceived as a series of crucial moments in a woman's life. Aching Heart chronicles the coming-of-age of Fran Duffy Walsh, an Irish Brooklyn urchin who breaks off relations with her childhood guardians after her uncle, Jo-Jo forgets himself enough to kins her far too heatedly, on the night of her first date. Years later, after loneliness and marriage to a handsome neighborhood Romeo-turned-alcoholic, Fran, played by Faye Dunaway, finally 1masters the courage to face the past and reestablish contact with Jo-Jo (Bernie McInerney) in time of trouble. Music and flashback link the five...
PERHAPS THE PLAY suffered from the weakening of its original concept as a string of disparate moments. Since Curse's first, highly successful opening in Chicago two years ago, Alfred has added a few long scenes and written in the only direct confrontations the script contains--Fran and Jo-Jo's single explosive moment and, later, her meeting with her aunt, which sparks a long talk over old times. But rather than fleshing out the story, the additions sit uneasily and discontinuities are all too evident. What pleasure, nostalgic or dramatic, can we glean from Fran and Aunt Gert...
...palmier days, when Bernard was a critic and early TV celebrity, he had put aside trust funds for his three children. They have gathered to sign over their inheritance in the presence of Bernard's second wife Mary (Jo Henderson), whose once adulterous love for "Daddy" has long since guttered out. The children accuse Bernard of omnivorous selfishness, of stunting and warping their personalities, throttling them with quotations and flaying them with a rampant self-pity...
...After Bobby Jo's phone call, I got another from the Lawston Foundry, informing me that Stan Lewandowski's sculpture, Oppresso, would not be cast in time for the opening of the Minot Performing Arts Center. The foundry workers, after hearing what Lewandowski was being paid for creating what looked to them like a large gerbil cage, went out on strike . . . I wasted fifteen minutes trying to make a lunch date with Hugo Groveland, the mining heir, to discuss the Arts Mall. He was going away for a while . . . He hinted at dark personal tragedies . . . and suggested...
Masselli did so in the name of a company he created in 1976 called Jo-Pel Contracting and Trucking Corp. Masselli became president of Jo-Pel. Joseph L. Galiber, a Bronx Democrat who is still a New York state senator, was vice president. Masselli put $3,600 into forming the company, and Galiber invested $3,800. In the past four years, their firm was paid more than $8 million on its contract work for Donovan's firm...