Word: thelen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Judith N. Thelen Cumberland...
There are soap-operatic calamities in this extended family, complete with a widowed aunt (Joyce Van Patten), her restless older daughter (Jodi Thelen) and her coddled, sickly younger one (Mandy Ingber). But they are redeemed by Simon's abiding affection. In a character portrait in depth, Željko Ivanek, as Eugene's older brother, provides his panting sibling with a silver lining: not a Yankees uniform but a French postcard. This season's silver lining is Neil Simon's love letter to his past...
...James M. Thelen...
...Yugoslay immigrants toys with writing poetry and playing the clarinet; Tom (Jim Metzler) provides the he-man silent type, meaning he has only a half-dozen lines; David (Michael Huddleston) is the chubby, balding Jewish son of an undertaker who inherits the business; and Georgia (Jodi Thelen), a vivacious, lusty young debauchka who drives all three boys to be forever singing "Georgia in My Mind." Georgia is supposed to be dynamic--she has more personality than a pingpong bail has bounces--spewing endless tripe about her heroine Indoor Duncan, her first grey hair, her boundless love, and youth. Instead...
...wife and two children. Danilo (Craig Wasson) is Tesich's maturing self-image: breezing through high school and college, working in a slag mill, brushing up (almost fatally) against old American wealth, articulating his fellow Slavs' ardor for their adopted country. All three boys have Georgia (Jodi Thelen) on their minds-a willfully free-spirited girl, naive and narcissistic, who thinks herself the avatar of Isadora Duncan and lopes through the '60s in search of a style. Four Friends proceeds in the same manner. As one character forlornly notes: "The excess of all this is a little...