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A Life in the Theatre remains, as it was on stage, a two-hander between a veteran actor (Lemmon) who never quite made it and a protege (Matthew Broderick) whose star is beginning to rise. Mamet has opened up the work shrewdly, placing the two men among backstage colleagues, on...
David Caprara, a challenger candidate for Virginia State Representative, is a former HUD operative and protege of Jack Kemp. He currently runs a business associated with Kemp's political mouthpiece, Empower America. Caprara lacks the charisma of a politician; he's a poor speaker and decidedly untelegenic. Yet he met...
It was a frenetic time in his life. He was finishing his senior thesis and preparing to move to a new job with the National College Republicans. In between, he got himself fired from the Red and Black for plagiarism. At the College Republicans' national convention, Reed helped defeat a...
As Connery's protege, Wesley Snipes out-acts his distinguished partner. Defined to a far greater extent than Conner, Snipes' cop is impetuous but professional, fighting to keep his temper in a situation which continually heaps indignities on him.
The championship series is, of course, more than just a clash of titans. Barkley, for example, is attended by his equally spherical protege, Oliver Miller, an eager rookie who might have been deemed too fat for the league before Barkley redefined the limits of flesh; Jordan's constant partner is...