Word: klines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Choice, there was but one actress for the title role in the film version: Meryl Streep, 33. To the delight of armchair casting directors everywhere, Streep is indeed playing Sophie, the Polish-Catholic Auschwitz survivor, resettled in postwar Brooklyn. Nathan, her neurotic, libidinous lover, is played by Kevin Kline, 34, the pirate king in the upcoming film The Pirates of Penzance. Kline is another nice bit of casting since, when she was reading the book, he was Streep's choice...
...last movie, Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival production of Gilbert and Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance. She knows it and she is sorry, because she loves Pirates, and Papp, and Director Wilfred Leach, and Cast Members Rex Smith (the seraphically stupid hero Frederic), Kevin Kline (the pirate king), George Rose (the major general), Angela Lansbury (the nursemaid Ruth) and Tony Azito (the double-jointed police sergeant...
...afford to make the film (hence Ronstadt's remark about acting without being paid). Papp, for his part, is proud of keeping his congenial family together, and of fighting off Hollywood offers-for instance, to finance Pirates if he cast John Travolta as the pirate king instead of Kline...
...shoulder between takes. All the pirates are on hand, and so are the major general's daughters. George Rose, the major general, a veteran Shakespearean actor trained at the Old Vic and Royal Shakespeare Theater, is never out of character and never needs a retake. Kevin Kline, the pirate king, has a fencing shirt with a decolletage that makes matrons of good reputation go googly...
After 118-pound co-captain Paul Widerman won on a default, the Crimson dropped 10 consecutive points in the following two weight classes to fall behind 10-6. Freshman Phil Kline was entangled in a tight 7-7 match when he suffered a pin, and Harvard's Dan Medalie, pitted against one of UMass' strongest wrestlers in Doug Johnson, succumbed to a 16-7 decision...