Word: michael
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Michael Gill, senior resident of Whitman Hall who originated the idea, took the bus on a trial run at 7 p.m. last Tuesday. The bus made a complete circuit, including stops, in less time than will be necessary in order to stay on schedule...
...waging this belligerent kind of journalism, her weapons are a tape recorder, an eye-catching figure and a vulnerable glint in her wide blue eyes. She roams the world in search of people who are not simpatico but antipatico, and she has bagged dozens-Norman Mailer, Federico Fellini, Michael Caine, Dean Martin, El Cordobes, Hugh...
Quite apart from its total inability to reflect the intellectual nuances of the Kazantzakis novel, Zorba the Greek, the musical is infinitely inferior, point for point, to the 1964 Michael Cacoyannis film, with its powerful evocation of fierce joys and harsh sorrows against the spare Greek landscape. Anthony Quinn was possessed by the title role; Herschel Bernardi merely inhabits the part like a rented room. Quinn had the sexual assurance of a goat; Bernardi talks up lust as if he were a barker for a snake-oil remedy. Zorba has to be-as Quinn was and Bernardi...
...shield him from his dour and insensitive relatives in the parentless household. The casting, supervised by the author, is impeccable. Geraldine Page, who won an Emmy award as Miss Sook in Christmas Memory, returns in what Capote calls "one of the greatest performances I've ever seen." Michael Kearney, 13, is a touching and believable young Truman. The narrator is Capote himself-squeaky-voiced, but obviously authentic...
There are only two ways to beat a cliche: either make fun of it-or do it better than anyone else. Michael Same does both with Joanna-and thereby makes the most dazzling directorial debut of the year...