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Streamers - David Rabe, The Trip Back Down - John Bishop, The Poison Tree - Ron Ribman, Candy Apple - John Grissmer,
Brighttower - Dore Shary, Trial of the Catonsville Nine - Dan Berrigan,
THEATRE: OFF-BROADWAY/REGIONAL
Curse of the Starving Class - N.Y. Public Theatre, Serenading Louis - Washington Theatre Club, Hogan's Goat - American Place Theatre, Othello - Margo Jones Theatre, Dallas, Caine Mutiny Court Martial - Alley Theatre, Houston, Better Living (LAWEE Award) - Matrix, L.A., Mr. Ricky Calls a Meeting - Old Globe Theatre, San Diego, Madilyn Murray O'Hair in Exile, OHIO, N.Y.
FILM
Marked for Death, Bird, Internal Affairs, Kansas, Prison, No Man's Land,
Heartbreak Ridge, Fierce Encounter, Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia,
Yanks, Bad to the Bone, Scalpel, Mommy Two: Mommy's Day, The Overlookers, The Lobster Farm
TELEVISION: SERIES
Macgruder & Loud - ABC, Trauma Center - ABC, Dear Detective - CBS, Texas Rangers - NBC, One Life to Live - ABC, Secret Storm - CBS, As the World Turns -CBS
TELEVISION: MOVIES
The Beach Boy's Story - ABC, Terror in Copper Valley - USA Cable, North & South Book II - ABC, Oliver North Story - CBS, RFK - ABC, Bus Stop - HBO,
Night Partners - CBS, Red Flag - CBS, Attica - ABC, Young Love, First Love - CBS, No Place to Hide - CBS, Coopersmith - CBS, Reminton Steele - Pilot - NBC, Pom Pom MOm/Willing to Kill - ABC, Cora Unashamed - PBS: Msterpiece Theatre
TELEVISION: Series Guest Star
L.A. Law - NBC, Full House - ABC, TV 101 - Recurring - CBS, Designing Women - Recurring - CBS, Bret Maverick -NBC, Dallas - Recurring - CBS, Murder She Wrote - CBS, M+A+S+H - CBS, St. Elsewhere - NBC, Eisenhower & Lutz - Recurring - CBS, Hart to Hart - ABC, Quatum Leap - NBC
RECORDED BOOKS:
IOWA DEPARTMENT FOR THE BLIND
Iowa Ghost Stories, The Great Machines,
The Killing Floor, The Gift - Pete Hamil, Story Quarterly: 1989
Reviews
The Boys Are Back (2009)
The High Water Standard for both SAG Awards & Oscar
Do not look for comforting resolutions and feather-smoothing platitudes or resolutions in "The Boys are Back."
The strength of this film is the confusion and adjustments of life necessitated by the accidents and the neglections of life. This was thoroughly captured by Allan Cubitt in his narrative adaptation of the episodic novel.
Scott Hicks has managed to reproduce these faults/strengths on film with a sure and loving eye. His work with script, camera and actors reminds me in many ways of the love songs that John Schlesinger sang to those he nurtured onto celluloid.
Clive Owen portrays his universal love and need through the chauvinist characteristics of his daddy hood. A solid harmonic melody consisting of grace notes.
George MacKay's artistic accomplishment as a teenager should not be over-shadowed by the younger actor. Those concerned about the emotional hurts of the "forgotten" child, will find the case for all forgotten children is made and reinforced by Master MacKay.
Then to that younger actor. Nicholas McAnulty as the youngest Warr, is the first "child actor" that has managed to go beyond "Yeah, nice work." for me. I can see, as Mr. Owen has said in an interview, why an actor of Owen's stature and ability adjusted to this boy's genius.
The entire cast, Ms Fraser, Ms Booth, the others cast by Nikki Barrett and Nina Gold, were exemplified by Alexandra Schepisi's mother-in-law. This oft-called "thankless role," sang with her humanism and fiber, especially in her scenes of conflict with Mr. Owen.
I hold this film, this director, this star, these co-stars/supporting actors as both precious additions to my memory bank and a water mark for what I consider art in the world of film.
Thank you, Arlen Dean Snyder
Il y a longtemps que je t'aime (2008)
You must see this film if you consider yourself a lover of great art.
Claudel provides a lesson for American film makers and a lasting pleasure for the audience. The cast is evenly excellent with Kristin Scott Thomas and Elsa Zylberstein the personifications of things felt and not said to siblings. It is such a pleasure to watch actors and actresses who look like people instead of an eight by ten glossy of themselves. Serge Hazanaviciius, Laurent Grevil, Frederic Pierrot, Jean-Claude Amaud and little Lise Se'gur form a perfect framework for the two stars. With no special effects and little background music, the viewer can concentrate on the slow peeling of layer after layer of revelation. The beauty revealed at its core is the result of action, not an attempt to tie up loose ends nor a deus ex machina. Snar