Word: woolf
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Derek, who has starred in such films as "10," "Bolero" and "A Change of Seasons," and her husband John, a well-known movie producer, visited Gary E. Woolf '87, the son of close friend Bob Woolf--a prominent Boston attorney who represents sports and entertainment celebrities...
...Dereks "came [to Boston] to spend some time with the [Woolf] family," said the younger Woolf...
...there was something of the perpetual schoolboy in the don during his 20s, and as Skidelsky observes, "No one in England gets far on brains alone." Keynes would not or could not be charming. As he bitterly appreciated, his lanky, uncoordinated body and equine face were not assets. Virginia Woolf placed him among the Bloomsbury men she classified as deficient in "physical splendour." "Rude" was one of the words his friends used to describe him, to which Skidelsky adds "arrogant" and "prickly...
LISA FREINKEL DOES an excellent job of directing a simply organized play which encompasses complicated themes. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf is an extremely difficult one for a college cast to tackle, because, simply speaking, it is a middle-aged play. The actors with whom most viewers will associate the characters from Who's Afraid are Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, who seemed to live their parts in the movie version...
...could compare Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? to an all-night Master's Sherry with the stops pulled out--fill your drinks and fasten your seat belts, academia is not all fun and games...