Word: melvin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...preliminary budget recommendation presented to the city manager last week by Melvin Chalfen, the city's commissioner of hospitals and health services, proposed closing the centers next year and routing their patients to emergency rooms in Cambridge hospitals...
...great gifts who does not quite know what he wants his book to be circles a lady of great gifts who has not never quite known what she wanted her life to be. "Entertaining," she once said about herself. It still applies, to the achiever and her admirer. -By Melvin Maddocks...
...Miss Firecracker Contest, her second full-length play, has completed a successful run at Buffalo's Studio Arena Theater; and her latest, strongest play, The Wake of Jamey Foster, is charming theatergoers at the Hartford Stage Company. Crimes of the Heart will be filmed by Jonathan Demme (Melvin and Howard), and an original Henley screenplay, The Moon Watcher, is scheduled for production later this year. At 29, this soft-spoken sprite from Jackson has more hits percolating than Neil Simon put together...
...Melvin Maddocks...
Concentration on the telling detail is a way good writers have of avoiding both melodrama and sentimentality, which blanched the hard truth of Kramer vs. Kramer. As he proved in Melvin and Howard, Bo Goldman is a very good writer, a man whose world appears to be filled with mild eccentrics and funny overheard remarks that he gets down just right in his mental notebook. His specificity seems to have disciplined Alan Parker, who in the past has liked to stress the ugly metaphorical overtones in his material (in Midnight Express he kept insisting that the whole world...