Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...alter ego. It's a frequent theatrical construction and one of the most toughest to pull off well. One actor is the public persona. The other is his conscience, his mind, his memory. The two sides of Gareth O'Donnell, a young Irishman, assume independent identities in Philadelphia, Here I Come...
...private side (Kevin Walker) surmount the demands of the difficult premise of the Winthrop House show, a drama-comedy written by Brian Friel. The public Gareth--Gar for short--is a quiet, unemotional guy who wonders whether his father will miss him when he leaves Ireland for Philadelphia. He was too shy to ask Senator Doogan (John Claflin) for the hand of his daughter (Laura Uyterhoeven). Now she's married to someone else...
Dewitt breathed a sigh of relief. It was The Philadelphia Story (Harvard Film Archive), the charming, wise, funny classic that gives the lie to W.C. Fields' famous epitaph. One look at the cast--Katherine Hepburn, Cary Grant, and Jimmy Stewart--just about says it all; but when you figure in the top-notch script and director George Cukor's subtle direction, you have one of Hollywood's few truly timeless jobs...
Although the high of 64 degrees did not break any records in Boston, in New York and Philadelphia the temperature climbed to 75 degrees breaking previous records...
Harvard took Penn a little too lightly in its Ivy opener--dropping a heartbreaking 76-75 decision to the Quakers in Philadelphia--and has felt the effects of the defeat all season...