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...couple of entries flick at Bradman's famously prickly character, but overall the tome - published to coincide with his centenary - is respectful. Such is Bradman's posthumous clout, and as cricket writer Gideon Haigh says in the foreword: "We are content for the deeds to stand...
...Paulus has a new role in Harvard drama. On May 16, she was named the new Artistic Director of the American Repertory Theatre (A.R.T.), filling a role that had been occupied by interim director Gideon Lester. Her predecessor, Robert Woodruff, left the A.R.T. after his contract expired in December 2006. Woodruff’s exit sparked a 16-month search, during which one top candidate—Steppenwolf Theatre Company member Anna D. Shapiro, according to A.R.T. founding director and creative consultant Robert S. Brustein—turned down the job. But like Paulus’ broken arm, the search?...
...really did get a crummy deal from the establishment - match fees in the hundreds of dollars and no contract money. WSC changed that and, though it split cricket asunder for two years, it is generally now seen as a boon for the game. But as cricket and business writer Gideon Haigh observes: "Players are more susceptible now to financial inducements than they were when they were paid a pittance. Now that everything has a value, nothing is beyond price...
...racial consciousness, that they belong, as artists, to the same human family as everyone else.”In addition to being a critic, Brustein is also the founder of the American Repertory Theater (ART), housed at the Loeb Theater in Harvard Square. According to acting artistic director Gideon Lester, Brustein founded the theater with a “colorblind” philosophy of giving the best actor the best part regardless of his or her race. While diversity in casting is, Lester says, an institutionalized principle at the ART, he questions whether “non-traditional?...
...last sees the 25-foot great white and says to shark hunter Quint, "You're gonna need a bigger boat." The ex-boxer first got attention, and an Oscar nomination, as Gene Hackman's police partner in The French Connection and proved he could be vulnerable as choreographer Joe Gideon in Bob Fosse's semiautobiographical All That Jazz, a role for which he had to learn to dance. The film, Scheider's favorite, won him critical raves and another Oscar nod. He was 75 and had blood cancer...