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...Ah, the vagaries of buzz. Nicole Kidman comes to Broadway in a David Hare trifle, and the theater world foams at the mouth in anticipation. Uma Thurman, another hot film star, makes her off-Broadway debut in a Moliere classic and gets a big yawn. To be sure, her performance betrays inexperience: slouchy and tentative instead of brittle and biting. But the production around her is smashing. Director Barry Edelstein puts slick designer duds on Crimp's smart update of the play to the phony '90s show-biz world, and the terrific Roger Rees, as Alceste, could teach any young...
...Ah, excuse me," came the unwanted voice. "You can't read in here...
...Ah, excuse me," came the unwanted voice. "You can't read in here...
...Datesite is scary--and is emblematic of the post-modern phenomenon that we will soon face. There are too many choices. Ah, the millennium. In the olden days--say, five years ago--you might send your one sweetheart some daisies to let her know you care. To join the author of last week's endpaper, Noah Oppenheim, in the casino for a moment, in the past, you would bet the farm on a harbored romance and send a dozen roses to votre cherie...
...sonnet we now call Shakespearean; another uncle translated Ovid's Metamorphoses, the source of much Shakespearean allusion. He would be hailed as poet and playwright and become patron of an acting troupe. Finally, what if our nobleman had on his crest a lion that holds out a paw and, ah yes, shakes a spear...