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	Article - Backstage Magazine \| Steppenwolf Theatre Company
		I Never Sang For My Father makes this theme most explicit: the play interrogates the extent and the limits of family responsibility.
		Seen from the outside, to live by his father's rules, he has the opportunity to be the good son; experienced from the inside, he is bereft of this real love and its future.
		The most common description I hear, from friends who have lost their parents, is that the death of a parent removes the shield, the barrier, that one has always (unconsciously) felt between one's self and…oblivion.
	www.steppenwolf.org /backstage/article.aspx?id=38 (873 words)

	JS Online: Quest for father's love, approval rings true in timeless family tale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		And most important of all, there is the troubled relationship with his father, a man who found much more success in the worlds of business and politics than he did in relating to his family.
		A son's profound desire for his father's love and approval is a universal human need, and Anderson's emotionally truthful handling of that issue ensures that "I Never Sang for My Father" will not go out of style.
		College professor Gene is at the center of this, coping with his beloved mother's declining health and attempting to please his narrow-minded and self-centered father.
	www.jsonline.com /enter/performingarts/jan01/sang09010801.asp?format=print (519 words)

	Talkin' Broadway Regional News & Reviews - I Never Sang For My Father - 5/6/04
		Father's dialogue will resonate for anyone who's watched their parents age, or anyone who's paid attention to someone in that situation.
		The son of an alcoholic runaway father, Tom has always had trouble with intimacy toward his children and in fact banished his daughter from the house for marrying a Jew.
		Gene's connections to his father, mother, and sister are the heart of the play and they are never in doubt.
	www.talkinbroadway.com /regional/chicago/ch31.html (1033 words)

	Film Review: Players are responsible for force of Douglas film (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		"I Never Sang For My Father" is an emotion filled drama, a realistic and often painful look at the relationship of a middle aged son and his elderly father.
		His mother really wants him to go and the father's remark, an attempt to disclaim any involvement with his son, is typical of the arm's-length relationship of the two.
		During a moment when he is feeling closer to his father than he ever has, Hackman breaks the news and offers to take his father with him.
	web.ulib.csuohio.edu /mastroianni/tm049.shtml (578 words)

	Term Papers on Book Reports - Term Papers Lab
		I Never Promised You a Rose GardenI Never Promised You a Rose Garden, by Joanne Greenberg, is a description of a sixteen-year-old girl's battle with schizophrenia, which...
		I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, by Joanne Greenberg, is a description of a sixteen-year-old girl's battle with schizophrenia, which lasts for three years.
		I Never Sang For My Father by Robert Anderson In the play I Never Sang For My Father by Robert Anderson the main characters are Gene and his father, Tom.
	www.termpaperslab.com /term-papers/book-reports/i.html (1602 words)

	Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - I Never Sang For My Father - 5/9/03 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - I Never Sang For My Father - 5/9/03
		Yet, when Gene must confront his father about his desire to live his own life free of the destructive ties that have bound the two together for decades, the younger Moramarco can't quite marshal up the dramatic forces necessary.
		There's much that's touching and relevant in I Never Sang For My Father for those of any age, though, of course, men will find the most to take away as many will have experienced issues with their own fathers similar to those in the play.
	www.talkinbroadway.com /ob/05_09_03.html (423 words)

	Welcome to Center Players!
		This Signature Series presentation is the story of Gene, a young widower with an elderly mother, whom he loves, and an eighty year old father, whom he has never loved, hard as he tried.
		Beneath these trappings, however, he is a mean, unloving and ungenerous man, who has driven his daughter away and has alienated his son through his possessiveness, his selfishness and his endless reminiscences.
		) as the father, Joan E. Lopatin (Crossing Delancey) as the mother, William Rogers (Laughter on the 23rd Floor) as the son and Jody Reisa Nurre (The Immigrant) as the daughter.
	www.centerplayers.org /father.shtml (238 words)

	Turner Classic Movies This Month Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		As a result the film often feels slightly stagebound but I Never Sang for My Father (1970) holds up well because of its refusal to sugarcoat tough issues and the showcase it provides for two premier acting talents of American cinema.
		She has been estranged for years from Tom, who has never forgiven her for marrying a Jew, and she finds herself pleading with her brother not to live his life for the old man. The story's windup leaves Gene having to confront his father and make some hard choices about their respective destinies.
		Anderson frankly paralleled his own life situation in I Never Sang for My Father; his first wife died young in the mid-'50s, and he remarried a few years later to actress Teresa Wright.
	www.turnerclassicmovies.com /ThisMonth/Article/0,,66891,00.html (737 words)

	VH1.com : Movies : Movie : I Never Sang for My Father : Plot
		Based on the play by Robert Anderson, I Never Sang for My Father is devoted to the prickly relationship between aged Tom Garrison (Melvyn Douglas) and his grown son Gene
		A college professor who feels that he has never been fully accepted by his self-made dad, Gene announces that he is going to move from New York to marry a California divorcee.
		I Never Sang for My Father suffers from staginess and a shifting point of view, but the scenes between Douglas and Hackman are awe-inspiringly good--all the more so when one realizes that Douglas had originally balked at working with Hackman, whom he'd never met prior to filming.
	www.vh1.com /movies/movie/16721/plot.jhtml (264 words)

	i-never-sang (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		I NEVER SANG FOR MY FATHER (1970) C widescreen 92m dir: Gilbert Cates
		I NEVER SANG is a virtuoso acting exercise reined in by Cates, a terrific actors' director.
		I NEVER SANG FOR MY FATHER was nominated for three Oscars: Best Actor (Douglas), Supporting Actor (Hackman, and Adapted Screenplay (Anderson).
	yorty.sonoma.edu /filmfrog/reviews/i/i-never-sang.html (244 words)

	Free-Essays.us - I Never Sang For My Father
		The plays, “I Never Sang for my Father,” and “The Owl Killer,” and the short story “Notes to a Native Son,” show this.
		The father in “I Never Sang For My Father,” Tom, was very mentally and physically abusive.
		The relationship between a father and a son is very important.
	www.free-essays.us /dbase/b6/xht34.shtml (557 words)

	Stage Review: 'Father's' frustrations ring true
		Playwright Robert Anderson gets it just right in "I Never Sang For My Father," a real downer made all the more depressing by the outstanding performances of the show's principal actors.
		Sue Kramer is slightly less convincing as the father's grown, estranged daughter, and Tawnya Dawnielle Riddle and Ray Schafer are good in smaller roles.
		"I Never Sang for My Father" is a real downer, but it's like going to a family funeral.
	www.post-gazette.com /magazine/20000316father5.asp (393 words)

	Winter 2004, Northwestern Magazine
		She can read me like a book and knows exactly what my taste is. She always manages to send me copies of scripts I fall in love with and can't resist doing.
		"My mom would testify to the fact that I was always the one organizing the play or the pageant in the basement." One of seven children, she was born in Lawrence, Kan. Her mother was a homemaker.
		Every member of the audience had a headset, and she spoke the text, whispering it in our ears, while she enacted a ritual onstage that involved a kind of abstract choreography of the text and the lighting of dozens of candles.
	www.northwestern.edu /magazine/northwestern/winter2004/features/lavey (2590 words)

	Concord Players: I Never Sang for my Father (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		For most of us who have worked intimately with I Never Sang for My Father, every rehearsal has brought personal and sometimes bitter memories of our pasts.
		Discussion has sometimes suggested that the tenuous father/son relationship expressed in this play is outdated: that "fathers" have changed to "daddies;" that women's lib has given ground to men's lib; that fathers and sons can be friends.
		Yet each one of us - father, son, mother, daughter, brother, or sister - has said, "Yes, I know that person; I've dealt with these issues; they are universal."
	www.concordplayers.org /PastProd/NeverSang.html (122 words)

	Stage & Theatre Reviews by Al Bresloff
		I Never Sang For My Father (thru June 27) by
		For Gene Garrison, life with his father was never easy.
		Tom Garrison (played by the dynamic John Mahoney) is a self centered man who has worked hard to overcome his poor childhood where his father left him to be the man in the family.The life he was forced to live brought him to be what he is and Mr.
	www.salsachicago.com /AlNeverSangFather.htm (591 words)

	I Never Sang for My Father (1970) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		As much as I value his friendship and judgment, Melvyn Douglas must be held as an exception to that dictum.
		His scene with Gene Hackman at the funeral home is too real and too devastating to pass off as "schmaltz." Gene Hackman has never given a bad performance, and his role here, as the dutiful, though semi-distant son, is (arguably) one of his best.
		Yet, our passions, those things that give meaning to our life, might not be what our father values...and so we share them with others and not with the one whose approval, love, and affirmation we most desire and most need.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0065872 (515 words)

	Directors Circle Gallery: I Never Sang for My Father, Apr. 4 2004 \| Steppenwolf Theatre Company
		Directors Circle Gallery: I Never Sang for My Father, Apr. 4 2004
		I Never Sang for My Father - Apr. 4, 2004
		I Never Sang for My Father — Apr. 4, 2004
	www.steppenwolf.org /support/individual/galleries/dc_father.aspx (51 words)

	Magill's Survey of Cinema: I NEVER SANG FOR MY FATHER@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Abstract: Gene Garrison (Gene Hackman) is caught between living his own life and caring for his aged, obstreperous father, Tom (Melvyn Douglas).
		The two have never been close, but when Gene's mother dies, he sees the opportunity for rapprochement.
		Summary: I NEVER SANG FOR MY FATHER is a disturbing film about the vicissitudes of...
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:42599696&refid=ip_almanac_hf (183 words)

	I Never Sang for My Father (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		A play for anyone who has watched their parents age, who have dealt with parents who are forgetful, stubborn, repeat themselves and refuse to acknowledge the reality of their ageing.
		His desire to establish a loving relationship with his sociable father, Tom (who has trouble empathising with Gene's grief), becomes more urgent as Tom's health fails and his emotional and physical needs increase.
		With his resonant and beautiful writing, Anderson delivers, with subtlety and dignity, a clear observation of a family in need.
	canberraarts.com.au /html/43e8a971-9875-bf63-e1076d3a87811c1d.cfm (104 words)

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	Read Only Memory -- David Diefendorf (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		I ride my bike to higher ground with Gramma on the fender.
		Of episodes from my not-so-private land of REM and apnea,
		My eyes get damp and I have to look away.
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	I Never Sang for My Father
		A fine cinematic version of Robert Anderson's semi-autobiographical stage play about a middle-aged widower, played by Hackman, who is still trying to win the approval of his distant father.
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	Gene Hackman
		Directed by Arthur Penn, the film became a 1960s landmark that provided a breakthrough role for Hackman, netting him his first Oscar nomination (for Best Supporting Actor).
		He was nominated in the same category in 1970 for I NEVER SANG FOR MY FATHER.
		Hackman became a full-fledged star with his performance in William Friedkin's blockbuster police drama, THE FRENCH CONNECTION (1971), etching an indelible portrait of the tough narcotics cop Popeye Doyle and winning a Best Actor Oscar in the process.
	www149.pair.com /marilynn/hackman.htm (698 words)

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		The Pitch: After his mother's death, a middle-aged man tries to resolve his relationship with his domineering father.
		Theo Sez: I've now seen this heartbreaking movie three times, the first two several years ago on a pirate-video copy with the colour constantly flickering on and off.
		It didn't matter, which is a mark both of the film's power and of the fact that, visually, it's nothing to write home about (there are two DPs, both equally undistinguished).
	leonardo.spidernet.net /Artus/2386/Inever.htm (77 words)

	Cinefile Search Result: Detailed Information for "I Never Sang For My Father" - www.cinephilia.net.au
		The early 70s was a time when America was willing to produce films for other reasons than entertainment.
		This generation gap drama was one of them with Gene Hackman and Melvyn Douglas turn in strong performances as son and father.
		The screenplay was by Robert Anderson and based on his autobographical play.cf Long Day's Journey Into Night.
	www.cinephilia.net.au /show_movie.php?movieid=635 (89 words)

	1970 Academy Awards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		- Melvyn Douglas, I Never Sang for My Father
		- Gene Hackman, I Never Sang for My Father
		- Robert Anderson, I Never Sang for My Father
	www.craigsflickpicks.com /newdbs/acaward.asp?year=1970 (74 words)

	Box Office Prophets Film Awards Database: Academy Awards 1970
		Runner-Up: Melvyn Douglas, I Never Sang for My Father
		Runner-Up: Gene Hackman, I Never Sang for My Father
		Runner-Up: Robert Anderson, I Never Sang for My Father
	www.boxofficeprophets.com /awards/display.cfm?awardsbID=19&awardsyear=1970 (113 words)

	MRC FilmFinder-Full Record: I Never Sang for My Father
		MRC FilmFinder-Full Record: I Never Sang for My Father
		Gene Garrison has come to a point in his life where he must tell his loving mother and proud, prickly father that he wants to move to California to remarry.
		Garrison and his older sister, had always had difficulties with old Tom Garrison and when their mother, after a long illness, dies, they must come to grips with what to expect from their demanding, self centered father.
	www.lib.unc.edu /house/mrc/films/full.php?film_id=2368 (206 words)

	I Never Sang for My Father Film Review - Time Out Film
		Based on Robert (Tea and Sympathy) Anderson's play, I Never Sang for My Father is a close and fraught piece about that curious, inarticulated love that turns blood relationships tacky and sour.
		Hackman makes something remarkable of the wrestling with himself as well as with his father - Melvyn Douglas in full flight - and Cates keeps the saccharine, if not always the over-emphasis, at bay.
		If you're not too laid back to stomach a film about emotions, this is more than just a worthy affair.
	www.timeout.com /film/75983.html (290 words)

	I Never Sang for my Father @ Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre :: Steppenwolf Theatre Company - Theatre Events on ...
		I Never Sang for my Father @ Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre :: Steppenwolf Theatre Company - Theatre Events on Centerstage Chicago
		But when his parents return from a winter in Florida, his mother's health has deteriorated, and Gene must take greater responsibility for his difficult father.
		This intelligent, heartwarming story strikes a universal chord on the subjects of family, aging and loss.
	centerstage.net /theatre/shows/425.html (92 words)

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