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...strangely familiar land (U.K.). Virginia Miner, "54 years old, small, plain, and unmarried - the sort of person that no one ever notices," has returned to London to research children's rhymes. Fred Turner, 28 and gorgeous, is in town to polish off a book on 18th century Poet-Playwright John...
Before the 1920s, according to Mayman, even the study of art was considered an effeminate and unworthy undertaking. Harvard's first professor of Music--and the first in the country--was John Knowles Paine, tenured in 1875. Art historian Charles Eliot Norton was tenured in 1874. Playwright George Pierce Baker, Class of 1887, taught as a Professor of English and later of Dramatic Literature from 1905 to 1924. Both were firsts in their field at Harvard...
...directed In the Heat of the Night, a crackling confrontation between black man and redneck that won an Oscar for Best Picture. A Soldier's Story is his tautest, funniest, bitterest work since then, with a sparkling cast. For this, credit is due largely to Playwright Charles Fuller, whose A Soldier's Play earned the Pulitzer Prize and just about every other drama award of 1982, and to the Negro Ensemble Company, where the play was first staged. Every actor, from Adolph Caesar as the frog-voiced, wonderfully malign drill sergeant to Howard E. Rollins...
...lucrative deals with the major studios, but they are basically comics: hip new models of the vaudeville Negro. "I don't think the country is ready for black leading men," Murphy declares. "White guys won't accept their ladies' going nuts over a black actor." Notes Playwright Fuller: "Americans trust black people when we sing, dance or tell jokes. It's when we stop laughing that people get itchy." So starring roles for blacks lean toward the comic and away from the romantic, which spells hard times for serious actors and serious films. Says Jewison: "There...
Angels Fall offers up some provocative moral questions and even takes steps toward answering them. Yet because the playwright bites off more than he can chew, the play is little more than a series of hackneyed lectures strung together by an essentially uninspired cast. Wilson and company might have done better to spend less time looking for answers, and devoted more time to hunting down a good editor instead...