Word: sam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Director Sam Guckenheimer has wisely cut out much of the deadwood. By disposing of four characters, an entire scene, and a sizeable 15 per cent of the script, he has tried to focus this theatrical hodge-podge. The result is a lighter, less political play than the original that zeroes in on the emotional interaction between the students...
...team also built up a 10-0 halftime lead, going on to win 18-0. Terry Martin scored on a 20-yard run, then passed to John Bernloher for another score. Sam Pillsbury added a two-point conversion on the first tally...
...STANDOUTS in a generally fine cast are Davis Goodman as the effeminate Wren and Sam Bloomfield as Mr. Paravicini. Goodman minces marvelously through his role as the child-like homosexual, and Bloomfield, clad in an elegant dinner jacket and bedizened with rings, gives a superbly controlled performance as the uninvited guest. Also good is Mark Howard, appropriately manic as Detective Sergeant Trotter. Nancy Abrams makes a stony-faced Mrs. Boyle, although her carefully accented syllables sound too much like metered poetry...
Moonchildren. The Dunster House Drama Society's production of Michael Weller's play about five men and three women sharing a student apartment in the 60s. If it's done well, it's a very engaging show. Directed by Sam Guckenheimer. In the Dunster House Dining Hall, November...
...They are not staged in rings but on barges, in factories or ware houses, anywhere working men are likely to wager a few bucks of their meager paychecks. Hard Times is a first feature by Walter Hill, who used to be solely a screenwriter (the intriguing Hickey and Boggs, Sam Peckinpah's The Getaway). Director Hill's debut is controlled and fairly confident; working at his peak, he gives a strong taste of the heel-end poverty of the times. Hill is also responsible for Charles Branson's finest performance to date. If this seems a modest...