Word: kaufman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Robin L. Boss, a freshman, won easily, 6-1, 6-0. Fourth-ranked Kathy Vigna won 6-2, 6-3, and fifth ranked Erica Schulman came from behind in the first set on the way to a 6-4, 6-3 win. Team Captain and sixth Crimson seed Debbie Kaufman was the only singles player to lose a set to a Terrier, taking a 6-2, 4-6, 6-3 victory...
...three sets. The first-seeded duo of Evans and Boss chalked up the easiest victory, with a 6-2, 1-6, 6-1 win, while Schulman and junior Deanne Loonin won the number-three doubles match, 3-6, 7-6, 6-3. But the second-seeded pair of Kaufman and Smith suffered Harvard's only loss of the day, B.U.'s Sheehan and Dawn Olson taking...
...Well, then. Perhaps this much can be ventured: if the movie does not have that almighty precious thing, at least it had the wit to look for it in the right place. Moviegoers seeking a grand yet edifying entertainment, right-stuffed with what Kaufman calls "seriousness of subject matter and a wild humor that comes out of left field," now know where to look too. - By Richard Schickel. Reported by Denise Worrell/Los Angeles
...When Annie breaks into giggles, Glenn turns to her with affection. "Oh, you agree? My own wife? Do you think I'm a Dudley Do-Right?" The pair chuckle softly, but not before Glenn strikes a mock heroic pose and delivers a few self-deprecating lines. Director Philip Kaufman, who also wrote the screenplay, admits that he has no idea if the Senator is capable of laughing at himself, but old newsreel footage of a beaming Glenn convinced him that the astronaut at least must have been "good-natured." According to Kaufman, the doting scene also prepares the viewer...
...Glenn. "As Glenn was the first American to orbit the earth, his story is more dramatic than most of the others'," says Irwin Winkler, one of the film's producers. "By condensing Wolfe's book into the drama of a film, Glenn became more sympathetic." Kaufman points out that shooting was wrapped up in October 1982; he contends, somewhat ingenuously, that it was only in December, when Senator Edward Kennedy announced he would not seek the Democratic nomination, that it dawned on him that The Right Stuff might have political resonance. Says Winkler: "The politics caught...