Word: stern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...desire that his playing call attention only to the music, never to itself, he was also a direct link to the pianistic tradition of the 19th century; when audiences heard Rubinstein perform, they were listening to a man born six months after Liszt died. No wonder Violinist Isaac Stern last week called Rubinstein "part of the centrality of music in our time...
...guys in Baltimore back in the 1950s. Nothing much happens-except the dawning realization that, in these lives, nothing much will ever happen. Writer-Director Barry Levinson found saving good humor in this landscape of deferred dreams and encouraged Oscar-worthy performances from Mickey Rourke, Kevin Bacon and Daniel Stern...
...fourth consecutive time, a giant 30-ft. Menorah was put up by the Hasidic American Friends of Lubavitch in Washington's Lafayette Park, just across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House. Many Jews are not pleased, even though no government funds are involved. Says Attorney Marc Stern of the American Jewish Congress: "It's unconstitutional. Most of the organized Jewish community doesn't like...
...perceptive look at a spinster schoolteacher awakening in her 35th year. "Paul has a sense of real adoration for what Joanne can do," adds the film's writer Stewart Stern. "He's constantly trying to provide a setting where the world can see what he sees in her." He has directed her twice since then, in The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds and The Shadow Box. In the first of these, their pretty blond daughter Nell (then 13, now 23) played opposite Joanne...
...work together, we both know we can't get away with any old tricks, because the other one is sitting there nodding his head knowingly and saying, 'Yes, I seem to remember your doing that on the 28th page of The Helen Morgan Story. Newman, says Stern, "is very sensitive to writing, and is the best director of actors I know. I think there's less impediment between his talent and its expression when he's directing. That's probably because, as in racing, 'Paul Newman' doesn't have to be there...