Word: stockard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...want this to become an anecdote," says Ouisa (Stockard Channing) toward the end of Six Degrees of Separation. Neither did John Guare, adapting his hit play for the movies. But his inspiration was in fact an anecdote -- a true tale about a young black man (here called Paul) who invaded the lives of some well-to-do New Yorkers by passing himself off as a college friend of their children. And though Guare has cleverly reshaped the material for the screen, where it has been directed with elan by Fred Schepisi, the piece is still not much more than...
...nothing wrong with star casting when the role fits, as it does with Baldwin and Alda and Hirsch. When a show really goes wrong, performers are rarely the problem, anyway. Last week's biggest Broadway fiasco was a ponderously staged pedantic pageant from stage luminaries -- writer John Guare, actors Stockard Channing and James Naughton and director Sir Peter Hall, the founder of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Like all Guare's plays, Four Baboons Adoring the Sun deals with ordinary people's inability to accept ordinariness, their yearning for mythic and epic significance. But it thwarts itself by hanging its plot...
...have done, I think, what we set out to do--open up communications and forge a new partnership between the city and its universities," said neighborhood activist James Stockard, the chair of the committee...
...DEGREES OF SEPARATION. John Guare's cocktail of a comedy -- part Manhattan, part Molotov -- skewers countless foibles while musing on the chief irony of urban life: how closely related people are, yet how distant they feel. Stockard Channing stars in this transfer, from off-Broadway to on, as a moneyed matron stirred by vague (and then graphic) discontents...
...Cambridge has arrived over many years at a balance between the speed of development and the responsiveness of decision makers to neighbor-hoods," Stockard says. "That means Cambridge takes time to get things done...