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...Systems. How did New York City get into such a mess? The trouble started at least two decades ago under Mayor Robert Wagner. In the name of good labor relations and even better politics, Wagner encouraged the growth of the city's civil service unions. His successor, John Lindsay, tried at first to tame the unions, but they only grew stronger. Lindsay also favored the unwise practice of borrowing to meet the city's operating expenses, not just its capital construction projects. Moreover, New York offers a number of services unavailable in many other cities: free four-year...
Kempson's direction is equally professional--there are none of the awkward breaks between lines or scenes that often plague this kind of loosely jointed farce--and a number of the actors, in a show not traditionally renowned for unusual brilliance in this respect, achieve more than just competence. Lindsay Davis makes a fine Colleen Allcars, Mark Kiely is impressively diabolical as the evil earl and Jonathan Emerson as his equality villainous accomplice ("efficient, but a strange woman...she's donating her body to science fiction"), and Matthew Gamser is appropriately straightforward as the bassest soprano since The Love...
...CELEBRATION Directed by LINDSAY ANDERSON Screenplay by DAVID STOREY
...Contractor is that Mrs. Shaw remains as remote from us as she does from her family. Storey cannot bring us near enough to see or understand the failures of the past. The film gives the sense of the revelation of a scar. This impression is reinforced by Director Lindsay Anderson's remark that for Storey, "the circumstances of the piece are extremely personal." Storey's father is a coal miner in the north of England. Like Steven, Storey has written novels and like Andrew, has also tried his hand at painting...
...former anchor man for ABC-New York's Eyewitness News, made the show because, says Executive Producer Dennis Doty, he should "wear well in the morning." Indeed he has so far been unflaggingly unabrasive. To provide political commentary, the show has enlisted such part-time "AMericans" as Lindsay, former Senator Sam Ervin, former Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Civil Rights Activist Jesse Jackson...