Word: landau
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...depict Tucker's life with his family and its extension, his closest co- workers (Martin Landau is particularly good as his shadowy chief financial officer), Coppola uses the tones of an old Saturday Evening Post illustration, all lamplit glow. Tucker's public life, promoting his dream, looks like an ad from the same magazine, hard-edged, overly bright. But when he confronts the automotive traditionalists in his own organization or the politicians whom the movie shows endlessly harassing him at Detroit's behest, and when, finally, he ; is placed on trial for fraud, the film turns paranoid in the manner...
...Landau aside, no one else in the cast gets a similar opportunity to assert any complexity; Joan Allen as Tucker's wife Vera particularly suffers in this regard. But that is a small defect in a movie of large virtue. Preston Tucker failed to attain what we are pleased to think of as the American Dream of success: his factory produced only a few dozen cars before it closed. But there is another more common, more potent American Dream, which involves not the invention of products but the invention of self. And this movie, genial and fierce, is proof...
...Harvard field hockey team shows an amazing ability to do well against national powerhouses and do pathetically against local poorhouses. The nationally-ranked University of Connecticut Huskies are as good as any team in the country. So the Crimson knots the Huskies, 3-3, thanks to Sharon Landau, who scores with 16 seconds remaining in regulation play...
...course, the Institute is not only for actors. David Herskovits and Tina Landau are both studying to be directors, and Mary Coleman is studying dramaturgy, a German tradition of theatrical literary managers which Brustein helped bring to America. Riddell says the Institute also expects to begin a program for designers next year and one for playwrights within two years...
...directing students have no mandatory classes, but are expected to work on ART and Institute productions. Herskovits is the assistant director of Gillette, and Landau is the assistant director of Brustein's production of Luigi Pirandello's Right You Are (If You Think You Are). Landau is also directing the Institute's Cabaret...