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...speaks even faster, as unlikely as that may sound. In a few hours she will be a guest on the Tonight show, and that is even harder on her nerves than being the host. "Johnny gave her her break," explains her husband, Edgar Rosenberg. "And she always wants to shine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Barbs for the Queen (and Others) | 4/11/1983 | See Source »

...while avoiding the usual pitfalls, this production falls instead into the Brechtian chasm. Were it any other play by Bertolt Brecht, this director and this cast could have produced something special. One can't fault them for choosing a hard nut to crack, and indeed, the play might shine with some more polishing. In any case, such a talented director and superb cast deserve a look...

Author: By Kathleen I. Kouril, | Title: A Courageous Attempt | 4/9/1983 | See Source »

...institutions must change to meet these needs. Their viewpoint is politicized, but their commitment is moral. It is the difference, at the student pull it, between concern and compassion. Concern, he says, is when you see something awful happen to someone said "That's wrong." Compassion is when the shine thing happens and you say "I won't let the happen someone and say "That's wrong"; composition is when the same thing happens and you say "I won't let that happen to a fellow human being.Inside the Divinity School's Andover Hall...

Author: By Laura A. Haight, | Title: Curing the Body and Healing the Soul | 4/9/1983 | See Source »

...footballers in The Club, and, to emphasize the lonely helplessness of Mac and his kind, a series of longshot landscapes that dwarf the actors. But with his jeweler's eye for casting and a fond patience with his actors, he allows every performance in Tender Mercies to shine through the visual clichés like the home truth in a country ballad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Heart of Texas | 3/28/1983 | See Source »

Rabb and Keyser shine throughout, giving us a George and Martha we can believe have been tormenting each other for 23 years. Keyser's George is properly sardonic and resigned, while Rabb's Martha transcends nastiness. When Rabb admits in the final lines that she is afraid of Virginia Woolf, we see a nasty and bitter woman afraid of the impending madness that led Woolf to suicide. Richardson plays a sturdy and naive Nick, while Isenberg seems to have fun with Honey's exaggerated dippiness. The scenery is basic suburban tawdry, but someone had the good sense to place...

Author: By Adam S. Cohen, | Title: Savaging Americana | 3/16/1983 | See Source »

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