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...fact, as surprised as anyone when, while celebrating his 50th birthday with his fellow mill hands, he falls passionately in love with a barmaid (Ann-Margret). Stunned, Kate is tempted toward but fights off a state of permanent victimization. Helping her to remobilize are a married daughter (Amy Madigan), who ferociously expresses the anger her mother represses, and a younger sibling (Ally Sheedy), whose wedding, in suddenly straitened circumstances, requires some ingenuity from all three women...
Family dramas are always an invitation to fine ensemble acting, and these players are up to it. Hackman brings life to realism as effectively as he brings realism to fantasy in Target. Burstyn clarifies her character without oversimplifying. She finds both repose and luminosity in Kate. Madigan is not afraid to let the audience dislike her abrasiveness, while Sheedy uses patience and stillness as a counterpoise. Only Ann-Margret is somewhat shortchanged by the script: her motives are never made fully clear. Sometimes, too, the movie feels overly tidy and pleased with its own humanism. But it unashamedly keeps scratching...
China Care clubs have already been started based on the Harvard model at Yale and Brown. Harvard China Care Co-President Aidan S. Madigan-Curtis ’06 said she was hoping to reach more schools through the conference...
Amee Chew ’04 is a social studies concentrator in Lowell House. Marcel A.Q. LaFlamme ’04-’05 is a folklore and mythology concentrator in Mather House. Aidan S. Madigan-Curtis ’07 lives in Holworthy Hall. They are members of the Radcliffe Union of Students...
...Aidan S. Madigan-Curtis ’07, as Seymour’s love interest Audrey, was absolutely wonderful; she understood exactly how to overact her character and sang quite beautifully as well. When she dropped her gangster’s-moll falsetto and let her voice shine through—as in “Somewhere That’s Green,” her big solo number—her voice showed considerable force...