The Late Great Henry Boyle

Year of the academic

by Sally Mitani

posted 5/1/2006

This year the Purple Rose seems to be celebrating the misunderstood keepers of high culture. Purple Rose founder Jeff Daniels, playing way against type, delivered an ace performance in movie theaters this winter in The Squid and the Whale as the repellently intellectual Bernard Berkman. Daniels then turned around and wrote for the Purple Rose a play about a

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