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Sally Bonn is not so good as Anna. According to Brecht, she is supposed to have a "certain run of the mill sensuality." It is missing. Her performance opening night was nervous and somewhat ferced. She seemed almost embarrassed at being on stage, rushing at moments to get through with it. Gary Halcott is convincing as an everyman Andreas Kragler. He is the confused warrior come home to an ungrateful Fatherland, wanting only to sleep with his old honey, sinking to revolutionary despair when be can't have her. Through the play he manages to look progressively more tired...
...Water Mill...
Back from Sin. One of the earliest efforts was a store-front ministry called the Living Room. It was the joint creation of three Bay Area evangelical ministers, John MacDonald of First Baptist Church in Mill Valley, John Streater of First Baptist in San Francisco, and Edward Plowman of Park Presidio Baptist Church in the city. To communicate with the hip settlers in Haight-Ashbury, the three hired Ted Wise, now 33, a burly Sausalito sailmaker and former drug user who had been converted through MacDonald. Before long, Wise decided that "to bring them back from sin," he first...
Detroiters sometimes liken the atmosphere in Ford Motor's executive suite to a Byzantine court. The company now has not one but three presidents: Lee lacocca, Robert Stevenson and Robert Hampson. The rumor mill turns largely on which one seems to be most in the chairman's favor at the moment. Whoever it is certainly does not call Ford "Henry"; no employee dares to. lacocca, a highly aggressive and voluble man, seems to have the lead now. He is one of the few executives who will tell Ford when he thinks the chairman is wrong. Even so, visitors to lacocca...
...Sunday morning, the movie theater on Melrose Avenue in Hollywood is packed. The front rows are filled with a red-robed choir of men and women. Hymnals are distributed; an organ plays. By Hollywood standards, the congregation is run-of-the-mill: middle-aged businessmen, a few boys in rainbow-hued bellbottoms, muscular types in T shirts, women in assorted styles of pants or skirts, a few motorcycle boys in mustaches and black leather. Whites, blacks, Orientals, Chicanos. Prayers are read. From a chair at the side, a husky 30-year-old man in vestments abruptly rises, steps swiftly...