Put a Little Drama in your Life
DECEMBER 1997 Published in the Globe Magazine Albert Ramsdell Gurney, Jr. ("Pete" to his friends) was born in 1930 and raised in Buffalo, New York. He's been dubbed the American Theatre's John Cheever, or the WASP Neil Simon. But whatever he's called, he's clearly the keeper of the flame for the dying breed of well-to-do (or at least well-bred), tight-lipped, Read More →
JUNE 1997 Published in the Globe Magazine His grandparents were happy to leave Czarist Russia and settle in the U.S. Their unexpected destination was Hamilton, a rural, central Texas, Southern Baptist town of 3,000 -- none of them Jews. What kind of legacy did they leave for their children and grandchildren? This question haunted veteran actor Read More →
DECEMBER 1996 Published in the Globe Magazine FEATURE ON "MOON FOR THE MISBEGOTTEN" Long heralded as the "founder of American drama," Eugene O'Neill lived a life that was as dramatic as anything he ever wrote. His biography includes adventures at sea, gold prospecting in Honduras, destitution on the waterfronts of Buenos Aires and New York, hard drinking, three Read More →