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...From Here to Eternity (1953). The role that saved Sinatra's stalled career (and spawned the horse's head incident in The Godfather) is doomed Pvt. Maggio. The movie is a bittersweet classic, from Burt and Deborah Kerr's seaweed scene to a lot of Montgomery Clift's best stuff. Oscars galore. See it again...
...Sure, I'm afraid," says Karl-Heinz Stein, the head haircutter at the base where Pvt. Presley spent his overseas Army hitch...
...exception is Pvt. Sam Lwin, who intends to be the first reservist to plead innocent to a desertion charge. The 21-year-old college student, born in Burma and raised in New York City, had seen posters promising adventure and job training...
Bearded and brooding in appearance, the Texas-born Wright often looks like a villain in a Jacobean tragedy. He has directed on Broadway (Pvt. Wars), off- Broadway (Vanities), and at regional stages in Washington, Dallas, Denver and . Seattle. In style and choice of plays, he suggests no major break with the Guthrie's traditions. His major effort is to enhance the status and creative contribution of actors. He wants to shift from the present resident company of 43 to a sort of extended family of 150 or so performers who will work there often but not necessarily every year...
James McLure looks like one. His two relatively short works, Pvt. Wars and Lone Star, are ready for instant transfer as a back-to-back double bill to other resident theaters or to off-Broadway. Both works are three-man plays, and the characters are temperamentally similar. One is macho aggressive, one is flailingly dumb, and one is provokingly prissy. McLure writes with his fist, and his characters punch out at adamant walls. Pvt. Wars takes place in a mental ward for brain-bruised war veterans. In a series of blackout scenes, Richard Bowne, Leo Burmester and Daniel Ziskie place...