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...casting would have aroused excitement on Broadway. Joanne Woodward as Amanda Wingfield, the desperate matriarch. Karen Allen, star of Raiders of the Lost Ark and Starman, as the soulful daughter Laura. TV Star James Naughton (Trauma Center, Planet of the Apes) as Laura's "gentleman caller." And John Sayles, filmmaker (Return of the Secaucus Seven) and novelist (Union Dues), making his professional stage debut as Tom, the restless, seething son who narrates Tennessee Williams' doom-struck "memory play" about his family. Add a designer who has won a Tony nomination, a director who has mounted more than 100 productions...
...Winner Nancy Marchand. What lures them to Williamstown? A casual atmosphere, the chance to experiment without commercial pressures and the sylvan pleasures of the Williams College campus in the Massachusetts Berkshires. This year the company staged 78 events in a variety of spaces, some for just one night. Says Woodward, who made her Williamstown debut last week: "Last year I came up to see a couple of plays and fell in love with the creative environment. You do things you wouldn't otherwise try, and you relax when you come offstage by going to watch something else." Adds Naughton...
...death in 1945. In Britain, where the composer met his first stage success (and his only wife), three more revues are wending their way toward the West End. In the past two years, half a dozen new Kern LPs have been released; recent interpreters of his songs include Joanne Woodward, Kiri Te Kanawa and, mewling All the Things You Are, Michael Jackson. Most of the tributes, though, are lovingly appropriate. They serve less to revive Kern's music than to offer proof of its enduring vitality...
...page opinion, Judge George MacKinnon cited testimony presented at the trial that some Post employees "deliberately slanted, rejected and ignored evidence contrary to the false premise of the story." In addition, he singled out Bob Woodward, the supersleuth of Watergate, who helped oversee the story. "A reasonable inference is that Woodward, as editor, wanted from his reporters the same kind of stories on which he built his own reputation: high- impact investigative stories of wrongdoing," wrote MacKinnon. "Regardless of whether one chooses to characterize this policy as conducive to . . . 'sophisticated muckraking,' it certainly is relevant to the inquiry of whether...
...West Point sports information director, another very nice man named Bob Kinney, went 4-2, and 1 had to be talked out of sending a copy of Kinney's predictions to woodward...