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...Broadway is also attracting top stars and prestige playwrights. This month Vanessa Redgrave opens in Vita and Virginia and the Joseph Papp Public Theater premieres Sam Shepard's Simpatico. In December the Public has a new Hal Prince musical, The Petrified Prince. January brings a trio of one-acters by Woody Allen, David Mamet and Elaine May. Neil Simon, a Broadway pillar for a third of a century, made news recently when he said that mainstem plays had become too expensive to produce. Now even he is off-Broadway bound...
...millionaire from banking ventures even before his moonwalk, ALAN SHEPARD expanded his business activities after leaving NASA in 1974. He is president of the scholarship-bestowing Mercury Seven Foundation...
Kennedy's conviction never wavered, nor did his determination. He ordered Lyndon Johnson, his Vice President and head of the Space Council, to bird-dog Congress for funds. He celebrated the early space rides of Alan Shepard and John Glenn as if they were great military victories. On space, he could sense the country uniting behind him even as other troubles mounted. "This is the new ocean," he told the people. "The U.S. must sail on it and be in a position second to none...
...film tells the story of budding young basketball star Kyle Watson (Duane Martin) who is supposedly torn between the influence of the fast-living Birdie (Tupac Shakur) and the more responsible Tommy Shepard (Leon Robinson). But the movie isn't very good at presenting a convincing moral dilemma...
...Shepard character isn't particularly compelling either. He was a big high school basketball star back in the seventies, but his career was cut short when he had a breakdown after the accidental death of his best friend, "Nutso." He now works as a security guard at Kyle's high school and broods in the hallways. With such a history, you'd think he would have some words of wisdom for the young Kyle, but he doesn't. He just broods in the hallways...