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...wrenching fourth act of Eugene O'Neill's autobiographical "Long Day's Journey into Night," Jamie, the older brother, grabs the O'Neill character and begs "Please don't forget me-- give me credit!". In "Journey", Jamie gets his wish; O'Neill encapsulates his ultra-dys-functional family, renamed "Tyrone", for one claustrophobic day in their Connecticut summer house, circa 1912. Though the play presents an equally hopeless portrait of each beleaguered Tyrone, it is the figure of Jamie, especially as played by Bill Camp in the ART's new production, around whom the plays' energies and tensions expand...
Since its debut 30 years ago, the members of the doomed Tyrone family have become stock characters on the American stage, as familiar, and as problematic, as our own families. Edmund (Michael Stuhlbarg), the character representing O'Neill himself, is the frail, morbid young poet who in the course of the titular "day" finds that his mysterious "summer cold" is a case of deadly consumption, or tuberculosis. Worry over his weakening condition has driven his mothlike mother, Mary (Claire Bloom) to succumb to her addiction to morphine, a drug she has been hooked on since Edmund's birth 24 years...
...example of pork-barrel spending and vetoed federal funding for it--but the veto was overridden thanks to the enormous clout of the Commonwealth's Democratic heavy-weights on Capitol Hill, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 and the late Speaker of the House Thomas M. "Tip" O'Neill...
American Repertory Theatre: "The Naked Eye," a new satire by Paul Rudnick, the author of "Jeffrey," now through July 3rd (See review, page 3). And "Long Day's Journey Into Night," by Eugene O'Neill, beginning...
...life," he butted heads with liberal faculty members at several universities before successfully running for Congress in 1984 as a political amateur against a popular incumbent. After a rocky start (he tried bunking in the House gym to save money until he was ejected by Speaker Tip O'Neill), Armey first showed talent as a legislator in 1987 when he won bipartisan support for a bill establishing an independent commission to recommend military bases for closing. He rose so rapidly through his party's ranks that after the 1994 elections, he ran unopposed for the job of majority leader...