Word: stapletons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...others were Jersey City Council President Thomas Flaherty, Port of New York Authority Commissioner William Sternkopf, Hudson County Treasurer Joseph Stapleton, Hudson County Freeholder and Democratic County Chairman Walter Wolfe, Jersey City Purchasing Agent Bernard Murphy, Hudson County Police Chief Fred Kropke and Jersey City Business Administrator Philip Kunz...
...curtain raiser, fluttery Karen Nash (Maureen Stapleton) books a suite, trying to rekindle the lust hopes of her 23-year-old marriage. But saturnine Sam Nash proves as remote as room service. The reason, Karen correctly deduces, is Sam's office fixture, a Miss McCormack. It is not only the affair that grieves the wronged wife, it is the businessman's lack of enterprise. "Everyone cheats with their secretaries," she wails. "I expected something better from my husband!" But beneath the holy acrimony are wounding truths. Successful Sam is no longer struggling; he wants the arriv...
...concluded that Scott "was very professional about the interviews, very honest. He is probably the most interesting and least self-involved actor I've ever talked to. I liked him tremendously." It was almost as if Scott were determined to live up to the nickname that Actress Maureen Stapleton and Director Fielder Cook applied to him in their interviews with Reporter-Researcher Michele Whitney-Big Pussycat...
...hitting some scenery during The Wall when he could no longer tolerate one of his costars. After a period on the wagon, he got drunk and, knowing he could not perform well, deliberately missed a performance of The Andersonville Trial. During rehearsals of Plaza Suite, in later years, Maureen Stapleton confided to Mike Nichols: "I'm so frightened of George I don't know what to do." Nichols replied: "My dear, the whole world is frightened of George...
...changed not only the audiences' dining habits, but the audiences-probably for the better. "It reminds me of London," says Carol Channing, star of Four on a Garden. "The audience is not overstuffed, overfed, and can enjoy the play more. People laugh better on empty stomachs." Maureen Stapleton (The Gingerbread Lady) looks beyond the closing curtain: "I love the 7:30 curtain. It gives me more time for parties afterwards...