Word: ryans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fight mobs go, the audience Friday night was enthusiastic but unmemorable. The customary quota of celebrities was not met, although Ryan O'Neal and Farrah Fawcett had ringside seats and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was blocking someone's view near by. The impression, at least, was that the action in the casino had been brisker at the Ali-Holmes and Sugar Ray Leonard-Thomas Hearns fights, and the high rollers' wardrobes have certainly been brighter. Holmes was an early 8-5 favorite, but the odds shortened to 7-5 with a surge of late Cooney bets...
...sensuality. If this production had a subtitle, it could be By Lust Possessed. Caldwell's gestures are endlessly provocative. Her hands urgently stroke her upper thighs; when she slips to the floor, she writhes orgiastically. True, she has been driven half mad since her royal lover Jason (Mitchell Ryan) cast her off in favor of King Creon's daughter. But she seems to miss past days of glory less than past nights in Jason...
Director Robert Whitehead, who produced Medea in 1947, has not fired up other key actors. Paul Sparer's Creon is more like a pompous chairman of the board than a Corinthian king, and Ryan's Jason is a callow marital climber rather than the hero who brought home the Golden Fleece. The Grecian temple designed by Ben Edwards has a brooding, darksome majesty. A pity so much of this production lacks...
...this opening scenario lacks subtlety, then if mirrors Partners itself. The film presents Ryan O'Neal as Benson, a heterosexual homicide detective assigned to work with homosexual cop Fred Kerwin (John Hurt). Because of a series of homosexual murders, their chief insists that they "set up home" in the gay community...
...Ryan said he hopes donations will increase substantially before the end of the drive on Friday, and that the program will match the 300 pints they collected in the final days of the program last year...