Word: romano
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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George Sikowski (Cole Stevens), mayor of the town, faces an uphill re-election fight, and Phil Romano (Charles Laquidera, a WBCN dj) who inherited his father's strip-mining business isn't sure that he shouldn't back George's Jewish challenger, Sharman. James Daley, (Jon Terry) unloved and unsuccessful, is embittered with his job as a junior high school principal, and regards himself as a man of "unfulfilled potential." James feels he has been held back by his obligations to his recently-deceased father and Tom (William Leach) his alcoholic brother. And through it all is the coach (Alan...
...cast fails to bring to the production any of the vitality and bravado that one associates with jocks. Admittedly these are broken men, shells of their former selves as the cliche goes, but here there are not even any shells. Particularly lacking in the energy department is Laquidara. Romano, with his good looks, money, and women should be bursting with at least the appearance of arrogance, but Laquidara, either because of poor direction or his own inabilities, fails to exude anything but timidity. His final confession of emptiness--he describes his love of 145 mph drives in his "porche...
Upon his discharge, Romano enrolled at the University of Pittsburgh where he completed about two years of study before coming to Boston last spring...
...Romano said that he felt "under pressure" at the Summer School "from all those people following me," making it impossible for him to study in his room in Richards Hall...
...Romano indicated that he was unsure about what he would do after he is released from the hospital. "I was planning to go to the extension school in the fall. I don't know. I might go back in to the military," he said...