Word: ryan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...appropriate juxtaposition. In The Games, Ryan O'Neal-Oliver in Love Story -plays a Yale distance runner who ends up collapsing into a concrete monolith during the Olympic marathon...
...March. Unfortunately, Director David Lean seems to have become so obsessed with historical immensity (The Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago) that he has lost the capacity to focus on the troubled existence of ordinary people. The loss is plain in his wide-screen nightmare, Ryan's Daughter...
...Ireland, is populated with handsome and talented characters. There is Robert Mitchum, a solid, burly movie craftsman woefully miscast as Charles Shaughnessy, the weak-shanked schoolteacher. There is Trevor Howard, who makes the crustaceous Father Collins genuinely likable and credible against almost insuperable odds. In the role of Ryan's daughter Rosy, Sarah Miles is as tremulously lovely a colleen as ever graced a Kerry hillside. The elliptic, listless script is by Robert Bolt, her real-life husband, who has to his credit the literate A Man for All Seasons. Bolt and Lean did not lack time or money...
...Three others were also arrested in the Ryan trial disturbances. Harvard students Michael Sobel and John Pennington were charged along with John Whitney, an associate professor at the University of Massachusetts...
Darcy Pulliam as Mrs. Brice and Kevin Cotter as Fanny's toe-tapping friend Eddie Ryan are delightful in two minor numbers, "Who Taught Her Everything," and "Find Yourself a Man," Cotter has the best voice in the cast. My favorite character has always been the neighborhood yenta Mrs. Strakosh, Eva Piques, who inherited this gem, has read either not enough or too much Philip Roth. She swallowed some of her best lines (especially "When a girl's incidentals are no bigger than two lentils, then to me that doesn't spell success."). For this I waited...