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...company for whom Robert Fletcher designed costumes in the AST's first season was a little-known young Canadian actor who played Antony in Julius Caesar and Ferdinand in The Tempest. His name was Christopher Plummer. The next year he portrayed Henry V both in Canada and Scotland--a stint that catapulted him to stardom, and a performance I have always regretted missing. For the past two decades Plummer has merited inclusion on any list of Plummer has merited inclusion on any list of the dozen finest actors in the English-speaking world. Like Guinness and (for a time) Brando...
...plot might sound sudsy but it has a sting unknown to the soaps. Helen (Valerie French), a middle-aged lady of slippery virtue, deserts her teen-age daughter Jo (Amanda Plummer) to marry a piratical con man in a Hathaway patch (John Carroll) who is visibly her junior. Jo, a kind of spitfiery waif, gets involved with a black sailor (Tom Wright) who ships out leaving her pregnant. A good Samaritan homosexual (Keith Reddin) moves into Jo's dreary unheated flat to care...
Sometimes bitter, sometimes buoyant, Jo is valiantly unresigned to the acrid facts of her life. She fences with her mother, lover, stepfather, friend and fate. Plummer invests her with an unfaltering pulse beat of humanity that radiates through the actress and her fellow players to every member of the audience...
Edouard E. Plummer New York City
...completion of a final Klitgaard report--which should be finished this summer--the University did acquiesce to another request from minority students: the establishment of a "Third World Center." But the proposal submitted in late January by the Rev. Peter J. Gomes, minister in the Memorial Church and Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, and his committee did not quite fit the model Third World students had envisioned. Instead of advocating a University-funded center primarily for Third World students, the committee--commissioned by Bok in the wake of Spring 1980 requests--recommended the creation of a "foundation" for race relations...