Word: joan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...remember when I first got there, a guy who was directing Shaw's Saint Joan came up to me and said, I want you to do this,' and I said, 'Sure.' The first thing I saw in the script was that my character was supposed to be weeping offstage. The muscles contracted in my stomach, and immediately I tried to figure out some way to play the whole thing facing upstage. And then I thought, 'What an ass. I drag my family with only $900 in the bank all the way to Connecticut and then...
...Joan Givner...
...woman who became rich and famous for her 1962 novel, Ship of Fools, and who will be remembered for such flawless short stories as "Flowering Judas" and "Pale Horse, Pale Rider," invented herself as her first work of art. As usual, the truth is more intriguing than the legend. Joan Givner, a patient rather than a flashy biographer, has set the record straight. It is not a record that allows much grandeur to its high-toned subject...
...actor, however, is excellent. He carries the Malcolm McDowell villainous schoolboy role a step or two higher in intensity: in fact, the two even resemble each other somewhat physically, especially in the cold glare of the eyes. Denholm Elliott characterized every feature of Thomas to perfection, and Joan Plowright manages to make her character warm and sympathetic under the circumstances...
Parents reap as much pleasure from the arrangement as students, says Joan Blackett, a counselor at the Bureau of Study Counsel and a host parent. "The project is a two way street...