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...hard to see why. Since September alone, Goodman has helped Al Pacino catch a serial murderer in Sea of Love, watched Richard Dreyfuss crash to earth in Always, and dried Bette Midler's tears in the just released weeper Stella. He is currently shooting a sci-fi film for Steven Spielberg, Arachnophobia, in which he plays an exterminator battling killer spiders. All that in addition to his regular weekday job: playing Roseanne Barr's TV husband in the top-rated ABC sitcom Roseanne. "More has happened to me in the last year," says Goodman, "than anybody except maybe Nicolae Ceausescu...
Even as his lovable-sidekick roles have begun to grow familiar, Goodman shows a knack for making the best of tired circumstances: as an alcoholic ex- bartender in Stella, he is just about the only credible touch in a film reeking of Hollywood sham. In Roseanne Goodman has created a full-blooded portrait of a working-class lug, equally credible whether giving heartfelt advice to a teenage daughter or doing boisterous pirouettes in a bowling alley. He seems to mesh perfectly with Barr; Goodman can be deferential even while he is stealing the show...
...Brando, hoary, heavy and sans Stella, merely chuckles at the request...
...that baldly, mysteriously becomes a form in itself. Yet their paintings are not like one another's: there is no confusing the precise black vibration of a Bridget Riley with the effect of one of Barnett Newman's "zips" or the slightly blurred, funereal pinstriping of an early Frank Stella. Today the stripe continues to linger in the wings of late modernism and is the adopted sign of one of the most toughly individual artists in America, Sean Scully. What, after so many other stripes, has he made of it? Not the emblem of a lost utopianism but something fierce...
Cage was invited to be the Charles Eliot Norton Lecturer this year by members of Harvard's music department and a Norton Lectures committee composed of faculty members. Past Norton lecturers have included Igor Stravinsky, Harold Blum, Frank Stella and Robert Frost...