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...only seen the extremes of America, either New York or Los Angeles. I've never been in what I call 'real America' before," said Glenda Jackson, 48, from the heartland. This week the English stage and film star finishes a four-week stint in Scranton, Pa., where she has been trying out one of her most challenging roles-that of university professor. Accompanied by her son Daniel, 15, Jackson has been on a working vacation at the Jesuit-run University of Scranton, teaching a master class in acting for a hand-picked group of twelve students from...
Some IBM board members were worried about this almost obsessive penchant for privacy when Opel was being considered for chief executive. They were concerned that he would have trouble handling relations with the board and the public and within the company. Says one board member, former Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton: "He is very possibly the brightest chief executive I've ever dealt with. But he did have some difficulty expressing himself." Yet former Du Pont Chairman Irving Shapiro, another board member, says that this has not turned out to be a problem. Says he: "The beautiful thing is that...
JASON MILLER'S That Championship Season shows what the passing of 24 years can do to men who must have been something like those in Diner. In 1957, near the time that Diner's heroes talked, fought and married, a group of Scranton, Pa. high school students won the state basketball championship. Each year, four teammates hold a reunion with their former coach and attempt to recreate the hopeful, confident, if also innocent atmosphere of their high school days...
When the movie begins, George Sitkowski (Bruce Dern) is the mayor of Scranton, running for reelection. James Daily (Stacy Keach), a junior high school principal, manages his former teammate's campaign, largely financed by Phil Ramono (Paul Sorvino), an Italian businessman whose strip-mining company thrives on city leases. Tom Daily (Martin Sheen), James's younger brother, returns from a mysterious absence to join the others and Coach Delaney (Robert Mitchum). "It's amazing." Tom comments, "nothing's really changed here. Nothing. "Of course, Tom's comment overlooks the closing of his old high school; the dark desertion...
Aside from Tom's wanderings through the town early in the movie. That Championship Season could have been filmed on the stage. The few scenes in Scranton depict empty street settings whose houses look like backdrops. The limited settings suit writer director Miller well, as does the almost detached underrating cinematic raphy of John Bailey. On several occasions, the camera's frame casually includes remainders of the characters' longing for times past. As James Daily talks on the phone in his office, he glances out his window to watch young students playing basketball; when Sirkowski exercises in his office...