Word: wheeler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...classmates converged on the diesel-powered stern-wheeler Liberty Belle for the cruise that was to cap their 30th reunion, a four-hour voyage up the river into the darkness and back, a roast beef dinner and dancing to a three-piece band. It was a stirry night of boozy merriment, insistent camaraderie, an interlude of urgent small talk and the irresistible pursuit of ghosts...
Belges, the double-decked stern-wheeler that he sailed up to Stanley Falls. Heart of Darkness conveys the dwarfing effect that the 1,000-mile journey must have had on the 32-year-old Conrad: "Trees, trees, millions of trees, massive, immense, running up high; and at their foot, hugging the bank against the stream, crept the little begrimed steamboat, like a sluggish beetle crawling on the floor of a lofty portico...
...Three Wives of David Wheeler (NBC). A man and his gorgeous ex-wife run a photographic business that employs another exwife, a young model. The half-hour comedy depicts how he and his current wife deal with his former spouses...
...LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC Directed by Harold Prince Screenplay by Hugh Wheeler...
...aging actress heroine, Prince has photographed his star so uncharitably that she looks like a raunchy barmaid. Most of the supporting players, including the talented Len Cariou, are stage actors with no screen presence. At least Diana Rigg and Hermione Gingold, playing the cattiest of the women in Hugh Wheeler's overly bitchy script, provide Night Music with a glimmer of razzle-dazzle...