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...years ago, the O'Brien family of Dripping Springs, Texas, committed hara-kiri American-style: they unplugged their TV. Dennis O'Brien, a salesman, recalls zoning out on an NBA game when his toddler Colin invaded his Miller-time moment. "He looked at me, then he turned off the TV and said, 'Read me a book!' What was a father...
...hold of exactly where and who they are. Gwyneth Paltrow portrays a girlish Las Vegas showgirl (she wears pink tights and blue barrettes) who hits the road with a karaoke hustler played by Huey Lewis (yes, that Huey Lewis, as in the News). Paul Giamatti ("Private Parts") is a salesman who has grown so detached from his family that when he returns home, his kids won't talk to him and his wife cuts him off in mid-conversation with a curt "I'm online here." Andre Braugher (NBC's "Homicide") is serial felon recently freed from the pen, still...
...every day that you see your husband bloodily scalped (and then shot to death) in the living room. Maybe feckless Del Sizemore, sleazy used-car salesman and inept drug dealer, had it coming, but still--it's bound to have an effect on a girl...
...America's finest, most adventurous regional companies. Under artistic director Robert Falls, it has boosted the careers of such playwrights as Mary Zimmerman (The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci) and Rebecca Gilman (Spinning into Butter), and presented landmark revivals such as the 1999 Tony Award-winning Death of a Salesman, starring Brian Dennehy. This fall the Goodman rewards itself with a new home, a 170,000-sq.-ft., two-stage theater complex in downtown Chicago. Its inaugural production, King Hedley II, eighth in August Wilson's 10-play cycle about the black experience in 20th century America, debuts...
SCOTT PIERCE 1866-1945 Came from a wealthy Pennsylvania family but lost all his money in the 1893 iron crash. Moved his family to Dayton, Ohio, and became an insurance salesman...