Word: cowardly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cerebral The A-Team and Silk Stalkings. Initial ratings for Profit were weak, but Cannell thinks he can maintain his track record. "I broke all the rules with The Rockford Files,'' he says, referring to his first big hit. "I had an antihero the networks hated for being a coward." The Rockford Files ultimately hit No. 1--and Jim Rockford never looked as sexy in a suit as Jim Profit...
...working-class Irish-American family in Jersey City, New Jersey, where he regularly starred in the plays at St. Peter's Prep. In New York he started building his theater resume, appearing in flops (the Doug Henning musical Merlin) and a few prestige successes (a revival of Noel Coward's Present Laughter starring George C. Scott) before finding his artistic voice in several plays by McNally. His long association and friendship with the playwright is currently asunder, because Lane passed up a chance to co-star in the movie version of Love! Valour! Compassion! Lane blamed a schedule conflict...
...self-proclaimed fool and knave of the show, Alden Stock '96, provides hilarious comic turns throughout the play--whether he is performing gymnastic stunts or swing-dancing with members of the audience, he is sure to amuse. And in the performance of Tom Brown '99 as Parolles, the haughty coward shines through clearly. The rest of the cast (including Yelitza Colon '98 as Helen and Salvatore Gogliormella '98 as Bertram) hold up their parts tolerably well...
...program. Saddam has ordered countless executions for far less serious transgressions. Hussein Kamel knew all this, but if he had any remaining uncertainty about his father-in-law's attitude toward him, it should have been dispelled by Iraq's state-controlled media, which branded him a thief, a coward, a spy and a "traitor dwarf." All of which provokes the question, Why in the world did he go back...
...director Kenneth Branagh's A Midwinter's Tale is a very acceptable update. Especially if you like Woody Allen too. For Branagh has adopted a number of Allen's mannerisms: shooting in black and white, using old songs for the score--in this case, frugally, just one song, Noel Coward's great anti-show biz anthem, Why Must the Show...