Word: thorton
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Josh Edelman '00 applied for the Mainstage twice with Thorton Wilder's "The Skin of Our Teeth." And twice he was rejected...
...With 3:14 remaining, Wildcat sophomore forward Michelle Thorton blew past a Harvard defender for a breakaway. Springer hung tough and swept the shot into the corner...
Billy Bob Thornton, A Simple Plan: Abrilliant, complex performance gets Thorntonnominated for a film virtually nobody saw. Toobad, because A Simple Plan was a fantasticdrama--the type of movie Hollywood should producebut purposely abandons (note the lack ofpromotion). As the lead character's slightlyretarded brother, Thorton convinces us that heultimately cannot find a reason to live when aninnocent scheme spirals into disaster--andconvinces him that life has just become one lieafter another...
...have a novel in you." Gray tells the audience that he was skeptical, but decided to give it a try. Gray felt, however, that he was "too extroverted" to be able to write, so he applied to a writers' colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire, the same town upon which Thorton Wilder based Our Town when he was a resident there...
Good things come to those who wait, however, and the second one-act is a decided improvement on the first. In The Long Christmas Dinner, Thorton Wilder returns to Our Town territory as he examines the progression of time through a series of New England Christmas dinners with the Bayard family. While the moral (the more things change, the more they stay the same) is conventional, a number of strong performances and stark though effective staging immediatly command our attention...