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...function is also to set the stage for the savagery of Schindler's dark double and most dangerous antagonist, Amon Goeth, commandant of the nearby labor camp, played by Ralph Fiennes in the film's most compelling performance. A man of Schindler's own age and background, he likes to sit on the balcony of his house idly shooting prisoners who happen to wander into his gunsight. He keeps as a servant a Jewish woman named Helen Hirsch (Embeth Davidtz), whom he constantly beats and humiliates precisely because against all dictates of ideology, he loves her. The point about this...
Whether or not she's already had her Fifteen Minutes of fame: Well, freshman year I was in a picture in the Metro section of The Boston Globe. My roommate and I happened to be standing behind Ralph Nader when he spoke at a rally in the Yard. But that's not enough. Hopefully my time will come...
...Ralph Rackstraw (Joel Derfner) is a lowly sailor who falls in love with his captain's daughter, Josephine (Sarah Cullins). At the same time, the lowly peddler-woman Butter-cup (Jill Wietzner) hankers for the captain (Aaron Caughey). Neither of these longings, however, can be properly realized if we are to honor Gilbert's satirized British class distinctions, and it is this sitcom-like conflict which drives the play. Ralph professes his love for Josephine; she rejects the suitor her father has chosen and tries to elope with Ralph; Ralph is punished. Then, like a lightning-bolt from the Gods...
Joel Derfner as Ralph Rackstraw sings in an elegant, well-projected voice with effortless transitions to higher registers. Even his speech seems melodious, as if half-sung. With arms flailing wildly about him, he gives his part some wonderfully bombastic melodrama. Jill Weitzner shines as Little Buttercup. She communicates complex thoughts with her facial expressions, and has a crystalline, resonant voice to match. Weitzner's movements capitalize almost instinctively on her physique (in the play, she is given enough weight to take down a truck). We have no doubt that she is ideally suited to this type of physical humor...
...Hamilton, N.Y., was not exciting enough, Restic made the jump to Canadian professional football and the Canadian Football League's Hamilton Tiger Cats in 1962. That year, he served as a backfield coach under Jim Trimble. In 1963, after Trimble left, Restic stayed at Hamilton under Ralph Sazio as first assistant and offensive coordinator. There, in 1968, he got his first head coaching opportunity with the Tiger Cats...