Word: neill
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Former U.S. House Speaker Thomas "Tip" O'Neill's political career began in the 27th Middlesex District. Its most recent state representative, Charles F. Flaherty, doubled as the Massachusetts House Speaker, before resigning amid corruption indictments this spring...
Wolf, 63, garnered support from the more liberal and wealthy areas of Cambridge. Galluccio, 29, drew votes from many of the same blue-collar residents who christened the careers of former U.S. House Speaker Thomas "Tip" O'Neill and state House Speaker Charles F. Flaherty...
...Hollywood's Golden Age--around the time Al Pacino was born, and Eugene O'Neill was writing his short play Hughie--nearly all movie actors came from the stage. They had voices then, and a glamour that could penetrate both the footlights and the kleig lights. Yet few stars of the '30s and '40s returned to the theater when they and it were in their prime...
Pacino is almost a commuter between Hollywood and Broadway; he's played in Richard III, Mamet's American Buffalo and Wilde's Salome. Now, in a revival of the 1941 Hughie, he tackles O'Neill. Or better, wrestles with him--for this 55-min. one-acter, which Pacino also directed, is virtually a one-man show. A conversation a lonely man has with himself, it requires that the actor bring theatrical variety to monologue monotony...
...great bad one? But onstage, he relaxes a bit. He knows the spectators are creating their own close-ups, so he plays piano: softer and with nuance. He gets to the tiredness of Erie and to the semisweet-chocolate heart of this frail playlet, and transforms O'Neill's monologue into a ripe conversation with the audience. So again, go figure: Al Pacino, film star, was made for the stage...