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...Orah S. Platt, a professor of pediatrics and master of the Castle Society, of which Magoon was a member, wrote in an e-mail, “He would have been one of those doctors everybody wanted—[he] wanted to figure out why they were sick and fix them, to be the one to break bad news, to celebrate good times, to advocate for them, to keep them healthy...
Magoon was a Jefferson Scholar at the University of Virginia, graduating in 2003. He took a year off before enrolling at HMS, spending time in Valencia, Spain, according to Platt...
Here's a play that needs nointroduction. Or, rather, shouldn't have one, because to say too much could spoil the frisson of Conor McPherson's odd, unsettling drama with supernatural overtones. In contemporary Dublin, a man (Oliver Platt) who thinks he has seen the ghost of his dead wife seeks the help of a therapist (Bran F. O'Byrne) who has his own problems. In a series of simple, two-character scenes, we learn more about the sadly self-involved lives of each, before McPherson abruptly sends us out into the night, gasping...
...danger is that Macy's will oversaturate its stores with merchandise that is exclusive but still unexciting. "Consumers don't want to go and find the same thing at every darn store," says Pam Danziger, president of Unity Marketing. Steven Keith Platt, head of a Hinsdale, Ill., retail think tank, the Platt Retail Institute, expects Federated to make deals with several well-known apparel and housewares makers to create products that consumers will find only at Macy's. Lundgren says he has already received at least half a dozen such offers but hasn't inked any deals...
...Grosse Pointe Blank” was unique and attention catching in its day, “The Ice Harvest” feels like the generic comedic mob movie we’ve all seen before. The only saving grace for Ramis is the performance he gets out of Platt as Pete Van Heuten, an old friend of Charlie’s who also had an affair with his wife. Pete’s drunkenness through 99 percent of the movie is integral. His goofy charm is particularly necessary in light of the fact that the screenwriters try too hard...