Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...befriended him (while working for his parents) in his native South Africa. Master Harold, called "Hally" (Brian Kleppe), wears a tie and blazer to school and comes home to the cramped St. George's Park Tea Room, where the entire one act play takes place. Sam (Jomo I. L. Ray) and Willie (E. William McGlaston), wiping the counter and scrubbing the floor, await him there...
Jomo I. L. Ray gives a magnificent performance as Sam. At first his perpetual smile seems almost painted, but as the play progresses the smile becomes loving and fatherly. When Hally's hidden racism surfaces, the change in Ray's expression is terrifying. His anger and sorrow are heartbreaking, making us wish desperately to have the smile back...
...Ray's performance is at once unassuming and good-natured, strong and endearing, painful and tragic. Sam must communicate to the audience the pain of the play--that although in ballroom dancing "accidents don't happen," in the world "we are all bumping into each other. No one knows the steps and there is no music playing...
ARTICLE 99. Noble doctors have to break the rules at a veterans' hospital that is threatened by low funding and pompous bureaucracy. A vigorous cast, led by Ray Liotta and Kiefer Sutherland, pushes all the proper buttons for righteous melodrama. It's just that this old Hollywood machine doesn't work anymore...
...Wegman's best pictures, his implacable dogs are a surrogate for the part of ourselves that we hold back from the world, above all in our moments of abject obedience. In one picture after another, the secret of Fay Ray's charm is the way she gets the last laugh, even when wrapped in aluminum foil, by facing down the camera with her own impenetrable self-enclosure...