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Born in Canada, MacNeil was an aspiring actor and playwright before joining Reuters in London in 1955. From 1960 on, he was a TV journalist, notably on foreign assignments for NBC. By 1971 he was in public television, where he and Lehrer co-anchored the network's coverage of the Watergate hearings. He started the Robert MacNeil Report in 1975, which evolved into the 30-minute MacNeil/Lehrer Report in 1976 and, by 1983, became the full-fledged MacNeil/ Lehrer NewsHour...
...Playwright David Hare does. And in Racing Demon, which is visiting Los Angeles in a Royal National Theatreproduction, unfashionable form and seemingly distant subject matter are suddenly made vividly relevant. At the center of Richard Eyre's dark, stark yet ever bustling production stands (or rather slumps) the weary figure of the Rev. Lionel Espy (Oliver Ford Davies), a man who has lost not only religious faith but also the consolations of secular humanism with which he has been making do. To the political right and above him is his bishop (Richard Pasco), also faithless but fiercely insistent that...
...comedy, featuring sappy dialogue between the lovers Mollie (Bess Wohl) and John (J.P. Anderson). Their pasts, however, are anything but sweet; John's wife left him, and Mollie married and divorced the same abusive husband twice. Then enter Mollie's ex's mother, Mother Lovejoy (Jill Weitzner), the Southern playwright's requisite aging Southern belle, and her dowdy daughter Loreena (Tanya Krohn). But even these entertaining albeit two-dimensional characters hide strange secrets...
Nobody has to advise Cheech to create his own moral universe. His instinct for truth and falsehood has been honed by his profession, and his hot-wired street smarts make him far more acute on the subject of human behavior than any playwright. Slumped in a back row of the theater, keeping an eye on Olive, he is bored and offended by the pretentious twaddle emanating from the stage. Beginning with a few suggestions for line changes, Cheech is soon proposing structural alterations, then secretly joining David in a pool hall to rewrite the play. Among the young playwright...
...aspiring thespian and gangster's moll. Nick, her mobster lover (Joe Viterelli), is backing the show, in which, nasal accent and all, she is supposed to play a psychiatrist. Nick supplies Olive with a bodyguard. Try to cut one of her lines and you have a hood named Cheech (playwright-actor Chazz Palminteri) to deal with...