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...Indeed, she may be a better actress than either she or her fans realize. The proof can be found this week when CBS airs a TV movie that features Moore in a rare serious role. The film, First, You Cry, is a strong adaptation of NBC News Correspondent Betty Rollin's book about her recovery from a mastectomy...
Even without its star, First, You Cry would be superior television. The unusually high-powered cast includes Anthony Perkins, Jennifer Warren and Florence Eldridge as Rollin's family and friends. Director George Schaefer helps keep the story from sliding into soap opera. Carmen Culver's script is not afraid to deal frankly with the physiological, psychological, sexual and social cruelties of cancer. It is Moore, however, who gives what is essentially a public service drama its surprisingly fine emotional texture...
First, You Cry is not, as one might expect, Mary Richards Gets Cancer. Rather than fall back on her considerable resources of charm, Mary plays Rollin as a rather cold and strident woman at first. When tragedy strikes, she gradually works shades of anger, maturity and self-doubt into her characterization. As a result, Moore does not just jerk the audience's tears but gives a sense of how one complex life can be redefined by an encounter with death. She also plays some extraordinary scenes, including one where we see Rollin's face as she examines...
...University Press just keeps rollin 'along...
...very day in 1932 that Franklin Roosevelt accepted the Democratic Party nomination, Cartoonist Rollin Kirby of the New York World-Telegram sketched a bewildered farmer looking up at an airplane labeled NEW DEAL, two words lifted from F.D.R.'s speech. From that moment the U.S. had a vision...