Word: kaplan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first, director Roger Kaplan seems to be aiming for minimalism, a severe understatement that admirably suits the grim plot. The characters wear black and wander around their comfortable living room (Quincy's unadorned common room) with the same aimless ferocity that characterizes their power games. Hedda (Julie Cohen), newly married to the buffoonish George Tesman (Curt Raffi), is bitter and trapped, seeking to find artistic fulfillment by manipulating the men around her. In the few days that follow her return with Tesman from their honeymoon, Hedda gradually becomes twisted in her own plots, trapped by the circumstances that once made...
...through lack of talent but through lack of vigor--in conceptualizing, in listening to the lines as they're spoken, in following the illusion through. An ounce of committed effort could still send an electric current through this play, turning it into a hair-raising experience. Without it Kaplan, like Hedda, is precious unlikely to create any perfect moments...
Grossman, says his proctor, "handles his success in a very mature way." Third-year medical student Richard Z. Kaplan, who is also Grossman's academic advisor, adds, "You would never know this kid had such success...
Directed by Jonathan Kaplan Screenplay by Ken Friedman...
...Lazare Kaplan has now developed a way to dog-tag diamonds. It has patented a device that uses a laser beam to inscribe gems with a trademark and seven-digit number that is visible only under magnification. The company spent ten years developing the desk-size engraving device, which, it says, performs the delicate operation without affecting either the clarity or the color of the stones. The firm has leased one of its first six machines to a Japanese company and three of them to Manhattan's Gemological Institute of America, which will inscribe stones for jewelry retailers. Says...