Word: joann
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Hackett took an acting course from Joann Green, an ART member who doubles as an acting instructor, and feels that the course helped make her think about career choices. On Green's advice, Hackett was able to get recommendations and apply to graduate schools of drama, including the programs at Yale and New York University...
...SMALL CAST WORKS as an ensemble--no one character stands apart from the rest in the quality of her performance. The three major roles are played by Sandy Dennis as Mona, Cher as Cissy, and Karen Black as Joann. These women, along with the rest of the case, imbue their roles with an energetic magnetism that makes us want to know everything that has brought them to this reunion. These performances not only crane stereotypic responses to Dennis, Cher, and Black but reveal amazing depth--overcoming the possibility for shallow interpretations from the seeming narrowness of the plot...
...Karen Black as Joann tackles her role with a delicacy and finesse that enable her to come across as totally believable despite the initial implausibility of her character. Her gaudy, dyed red hair and her overpowering femininity enhance the sexual ambiguities surrounding her character--the only one of the characters to have changed during the past 20 years. Although she doesn't come into the movie until the plot has been underway for quite some time, Black's Joann breaks the trance-like spell that pervades the reunion; she forces cruel reality to enter into the plot as her character...
Harvard fans are used to DenHartog's dominating style, but the youngest competitor on the national squad surprised some teammates. "She played superbly," U.S. Assistant Coach JoAnn Harper said this week of the tall, slim attacker. "I don't think there's anyone around who is better in front of the net than Francesca...
...JoAnn Hinckley, the defendant's mother, covered her face. She sobbed, embraced her husband and then, though she tried not to, she smiled. So did her husband, the Colorado oil millionaire who last year kicked their boy out of the house and this month wept as he testified: "I wish to God I could trade places with him right now." But the dull blue eyes of their wayward son, pasted like wafers on his expressionless face, avoided the gaze of those in the courtroom through the very end. What emotions swirled in his twisted psyche-a mystery that neither...