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Darryll Deever (William Hurt), a young Vietnam Veteran, works as a janitor and dreams of meeting Tony Sokolow (Sigouney Weaver), a beautiful television reporter. When a man is murdered, Deever pretends to know more than he does--to attract Tony. He discovers that his innocent lies attract more than the reporter: the killers want him; the victim's cohorts want him; the police want him and Tony Sokolow only wants the story...
Like Hitchcock, writer Tesich sees potential harm in the most innocent quirks. The background of New York City embellishes that sense of menace. Deever's preoccupation with Tony Sokolow throws him headlong into the midst of an international plot involving the murdered man, (ominously named "Mr. Long") and a group of wealthy Zionists. Unlike the innocent obsessions in Breaking Away, Deever's are misconstrued, then used as bait against him. The pace of the city brings about an urgency and neurosis which transforms even the simplest of actions, like playing with a dog, with an air of danger. Peter Yate...
Daryll Deaver (Hurt) is the night man in a Manhattan office tower; Tony Sokolow (Weaver) is the TV newswoman with whom Daryll has been conducting a one-way, cathode love affair. When they meet at the site of a murder in the building, and he professes knowledge of the crime, she determines to use him as cunningly as any Frank Capra reporter chasing a hot story on the way to falling in love. Daryll is disarmingly direct in telling Tony how much he loves her, has always loved her, and always will. His offer to wax the floors...
...performance this weekend will include "Escape," choreographed by Sokolow, in which she portrays the different stages of love in a woman's life and "Mothers of Israel," choreographed by Margalit Oved, in which she recreates the human personalities of the four Jewish mothers, Sarah, Rebekah, Leah and Rachel...
After graduating from Juillard, Ze'eva performed with Sokolow's company, the American Dance Theater at Lincoln Center, Dance Theater Workshop, the New York Shakespeare Festival, and as a guest artist with Pearl Lang and company. She formed her own solo dance program in 1971 and has since toured throughout the U.S. and in Geneva, London, Berne, Bonn, and Jerusalem...