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...Roberta Simon was eight years old when poliomyelitis paralyzed her from the neck down. She spent three months on her back in a Washington hospital and then began a long series of treatments and exercises that slowly, painfully restored full mobility to her limbs. Like many brave polio victims, she pushed herself hard. She was a majorette in junior high school, went to college and eventually became a surgical nurse in a Chicago-area hospital, working long hours on her feet in the operating room. "I was out there doing my thing," she says. "I thought I was over polio...
Particularly wonderful is the all-too-brief treatment of the love affair between Gareth (Simon Callow of "A Room with a View") and Matthew (John Hannah in his screen debut). Hannah's reading of W.H. Auden's great love poem, "Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone" at Gareth's funeral is one of the most poignant moments ever captured on celluloid...
...course, there are other things to do and see in Pasadena. Football fans will want to visit the Rose Bowl, and art buffs shouldn't miss the Norton Simon Museum or the Huntington Art Gallery and Library. Southern California's more famous attractions, such as Disneyland and Hollywood, are only short drives away. The beaches, mountains and deserts that usually attract spring break crowds are equally nearby...
Jones' Olive come closest to this idea, with a tough sexiness that doesn't preclude her from admitting to loneliness, to vulnerability. Jones doesn't settle for turning Olive into a sterotype. Instead, Jones infuses Simon's creation, a hard-nosed sports reporter, with streaks of warmth and compassion, making Olive the closest thing to a real complex character that this play...
...Couple. By Neil Simon. A few years ago, Neil Simon rewrote his hit comedy "The Odd Couple" for women. This is it. At least as funny as the original, it's about what happens when a neurotic, nearly separated woman with extremely anal tendencies moves in with a friend who prizes her life of creative disorder. Leverett Old Library, 8 p.m. $4; $3 for Leverett House residents...