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When actors become singers, the results can be as painful to experience as a dental appointment with a meat packer who moonlights as an orthodontist. Actress Rebecca Pidgeon (who starred in the plays Speed-the-Plow and Oleanna off-Broadway) has released her first U.S. album, The Raven. Her husband David Mamet (who is the author of the plays Speed-the-Plow and Oleanna) wrote or co- wrote lyrics to five of the CD's songs with her. All of this suggests an unlistenable vanity project...
...even close. The Raven is a slight album, but the material has a consistent sweetness. Pidgeon's voice is light and agile -- it couldn't fill up a concert hall, but she never overtaxes herself and instead achieves an understated, coffee-bar intimacy. She wrote or co-wrote almost all the album's music. She is accompanied by the soft, unhurried, breezy sounds of a piano, acoustic guitars and strings...
Mamet's Oleanna sets up an innocent-looking encounter between a baffled and seemingly despondent college student (played by Mamet's wife Rebecca Pidgeon) and a haughty and fashionably iconoclastic professor (William H. Macy). His office remarks to her, lashed to a Procrustean bed of rhetorical propriety, wildly and perhaps willfully misinterpreted, become her basis for bringing formal disciplinary charges. He is accused of everything from sexual harassment to disrespect for the learning process. But his worst crime in her eyes is the "elitism" of daring to think that having something to impart makes him more important than those...
Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon star in a 1942 classic, portraying the heroic British effort in World War II. The film features a model family in which the father, mother and son make their respective contributions to the war effort. Director William Wyler simultaneously develops two themes: the devastation of the war and the reluctance of the British to forgo their everyday lives. The engrossing melodrama brings home the message of the effects of the war on the homefront...
DIED. Walter Pidgeon, 87, urbane, courtly actor for half a century in Hollywood who dignified more than 100 films, most often as a reassuring and formidable gentleman; of a stroke; in Santa Monica, Calif. Born in Canada, Pidgeon reached his peak of popularity during the 1940s and '50s when he teamed with Greer Garson for eight films, most notably Mrs. Miniver, in which he movingly portrayed the staunch father of an English family whose lives are rent by World...