Word: neale
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Players to Watch: Jay Fiedler, MattBrzica, Neal Martin, Jason Fell, Dennis Durkin
...alternately bitter and brave, and they ultimately learn to bond with one another. Sex remains for them, of course, a scary and tragic issue. But if THE WATERDANCE has nothing new to say about its subject, at least it speaks in an engaging voice: soft, literate, modest. Probably because Neal Jimenez, its writer (and co-director with Michael Steinberg), is writing autobiographically, he is less concerned with melodramatic invention than he is with anecdotal truthfulness. The movie chooses irony over sentiment for its basic tonality, and is the better for that uncommercial choice...
Cambridge resident John H. O'Neal used to earn $700 to $800 per week as a retail auto dealer...
...Today O'Neal belongs to a growing class of unemployed but job-seeking city residents who depend on Cambridge food pantries, like the Bread and Justice Food Pantry in Central Square, to "make ends meet" and survive bleak economic times...
...whole weekend people put a lot of pressure on us," junior Neal Tew said. "It made us feel that we had to live up to their expectations...