Word: reitman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Reitman, whose decidedly unfunny unctuousness ("You make audiences laugh all day, all over the world...") made one long for the days when comics would salute their peers by getting drunk and insulting them...
These qualities were obviously not lost on director Ivan Reitman when he cast her--well before the issue of her personal romantic preferences raised its irrelevant head--in Six Days, Seven Nights. For this is a castaway comedy with a stronger-than-usual admixture of action sequences thrown in to please her co-star's boyish fans. His Quinn is a charter pilot and social dropout. Her Robin is a nervous small-plane passenger and magazine editor. And they are forced to survive on a tropical island when their plane is forced down by a storm...
Even the riders who do ride in shows find the team rewarding for other reasons as well. Some find it teaches them how to communicate better. Sia's co-captain Eric A. Reitman `99, explains the difficulty of getting the horses to know what you want them to do. He says that, "direct communication is, for the most part, impossible. We fall back on a vocabulary of reaction, we cajole, cater, condemn, threaten, punish, forgive, reward, take `face' and deal with egos and attitudes, just as one has to in a social situation with humans...
Taking first place ribbons were sophomores Laura Winthrop, Michael Haynie and junior Eric Reitman...
Haynie and Reitman were winners in the Adncaned Walk-Trot-Canter and Beginner Walk-Trot respectively...