Word: joe
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...against the Bulldogs--who enter The Game winless in league play--it will mark the first unblemished league record in team history.Crimson PhotosDavid. S. TangAN OLD-FASHIONED WHUPPIN': (Top) Sophomore CHRIS NOWINSKI downs Penn's BRIAN BONANNO as a mob of Crimson tacklers survey the scene. (Left) Junior JOE MATTSON evades a Quaker defender...
Louis' is not the only weak will in the play. In sort of parallel plot, a legal clerk named Joe (Geof Oxnard '99) exists in a permanent conflict of ideas and realities. He insists he loves his wife Harper (Jessica Shapiro '01), a fragile agoraphobe with a Valium dependency, but he seems to find plenty of reason not come home on time. He is careerist enough consider a move to Washington, D.C., despite his wife's objections, but also has enough belief in his Mormon ideals as to request that his boss refrain from taking the Lord's name...
...Joe's boss is not just any boss. He is Roy Cohn (Jim Augustine '01), the infamous legal viper who had close personalties to Joseph McCarthy and who helped ensure the death penalty for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Kushner's Cohn hates himself as venomously as he does everyone else. When his doctor of thirty years (Lisa Nosal '98) diagnoses him with AIDS, Cohn thunders back that "AIDS is what homosexuals have! I have liver cancer...
Finally, for all the undergraduates who ever left Common Casting because the parts offered were too small, Nosal's performance should be required viewing. Performances, actually. In two brief appearances as Joe's mother, she achieves brutality without being broad. Her bravura work, though, is in her single scene as Henry, Roy Cohn's doctor. "You can call [the disease] whatever you want," she tells Roy, telegraphing to the audience both how accustomed Cohn is to getting what he "wants" and how little chance he stands against this final enemy...
...weak screenplay. In the opening sequence Figgis has Snipes directly addressing the camera as he walks through the streets of Manhattan on his way to see Charlie. This narrative device pops up sporadically in an effort to connect the sloppy narrative strands. The script was originally written by Joe Esterzhas (purveyor of such cinematic fool's gold as Basic Instinct and the infamous Showgirls), and it shows in some places (an especially acrobatic sex scene, for instance...