Word: matalon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...financial performance is a wonder as well. From fiscal 1983 through 1987, annual revenues more than doubled, to $2.9 billion, while profits nearly quintupled, to $444.7 million. During that time the value of the company's stock has zoomed from $2 billion to nearly $10 billion. Says David Matalon, president of rival Tri-Star Pictures: "When it comes to Disney, there are two camps in this industry: extreme jealousy and admiration. I fall into the latter...
...walls of ancient temples. Two standouts: Sword Dance, done with steely balletic precision by John Curry of ice-skating fame, and the Funeral Dance, performed with melancholy fury by Marina Eglevsky to a dirge of bagpipes. The guiding intelligence behind every moment of every scene belongs to Vivian Matalon, who makes of the director's craft a magic potion...
Part of that may stem from the play's lineal parentage. It surely includes Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, that symbiotic study of lonely spirits in stultifying small towns seeking the mind's freedom and the heart's release. Director Vivian Matalon has sensed that aspect of the play, and his cast, wondrous in its ensemble excellence, embodies it. Whether one goes to the theater to laugh, to cry, to muse or to learn, Morning's at Seven satisfies all four appetites. -T. E. Kalem