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...include: Charlotte Pierce Armstrong '49, a New York lawyer; Peter C. B. Bynoe, chair and chief executive of Chicagobased Telemat, Ltd.; Antonio Madero '58, founder and chief executive of Mexico's Corporacion Industrial San Luis; Frank N. Newman '63, vice chair and chief financial officer of BankAmerica; Anne H. Richardson '51, chair of Washington D.C.-based Reading is Fundamental; and Torsten N. Wiesel, President of Rockefeller University...
...BOTTOM LINE: Natasha Richardson stars in a revival of the waterfront drama that finally finds its sea legs...
Perhaps Natasha Richardson, the gifted British actress who stars in David Leveaux's sturdy Broadway revival, figured that the play might not be terrible if Anna weren't quite so Swedish. She jettisons the immigrant inflections for a flat Minnesota accent. More helpfully, she makes Anna a fighter, battered on the wheel of men's lust but still defiantly erect. The actors' posture is important here. As Anna's negligent father, Rip Torn walks with the cramped stride of a man who stays upright by lying to himself -- even as Torn remains true to the text by speaking...
...died a few months before the play was written, and in it you can see Eugene -- the tramp poet in a fog, the son who ran away to sea -- raging at a dying generation's prejudices before reconciling himself to the people who hold them. In a subtler way, Richardson has donned the mantle of her incandescent mother, Vanessa Redgrave. By evening's end, the young star has settled onto the old O'Neill sofa. Why, they might have been made for each other...
Administration: Susan Lynd, David Richardson, Hope Almash, Melissa August, Breena Clarke, Donald N. Collins, Joan A. Connelly, Ann V. King, Lina Lofaro, Anne D. Moffett, Judith R. Stoler News Desks: Brian Doyle, Waits L. May III, Susanna M. Schrobsdorff, Pamela H. Thompson, Diana Tollerson, Ann Drury Wellford, Mary Wormley...