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...imagining it. These men are of diverse backgrounds, grousing (but never cynical), scared (but never immobilized), setting aside their small, usually comical, differences to form a unit that, in both efficiency and common decency, no tyranny could hope to beat. The presence of a smarmy p.r. officer (John Lithgow), eager to exploit the crew in a home-front media campaign celebrating their democratic virtues, signals the filmmakers' awareness of wartime fabulism. But their own nostalgic prettifications are hardly more realistic, or penetrating...
...John Lithgow THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP. Cast as a transsexual former pro football player, Lithgow gave an unsmirking performance and won a 1982 Oscar nomination...
Traditional radio drama is also getting a wider airing on NPR. The network broadcast Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis' novel of Main Street shenanigans, complete with music, sound effects and a cast of 34 readers, including Ed Asner (as George Babbitt), Richard Dreyfuss, Amy Irving and John Lithgow. Among future projects: Arthur Kopit's play Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Momma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad and muckraking novelist Frank Norris' McTeague. Asner, who was paid a mere $2,300 for his work, which stretched over nine months, finds it satisfying nonetheless. Says he: "I grew...
...known how the other four successful candidates--Labor Secretary Elizabeth H. Dole, researcher Dr. Bernadine P. Healy, actor John A. Lithgow '67 and attorney Peter L. Malkin '55--stood on the divestment issue. Yet HRAAA supporters said Tutu's election alone could tip the scales their...
...known how the other four successful candidates--Labor Secretary Elizabeth H. Dole, researcher Dr. Bernadine P. Healy, actor John A. Lithgow '67 and attorney Peter L. Malkin '55--stood on the divestment issue. Yet HRAAA supporters said Tutu's election alone could tip the scales their...