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...parting affirmation of the human spirit. But it worked only if you didn't think too hard about what happened to the characters in real life. Anne and the seven family members and friends who spent two years hiding from the Nazis in a secret annex above an Amsterdam warehouse were herded off to concentration camps, where all but one of them--Anne's father Otto--perished...
Every big Broadway musical these days has the obligatory souvenir stand in the lobby, where happy patrons can buy a Cats T shirt or a Les Miz CD on their way out. But the gaudily restored New Amsterdam Theatre on 42nd Street, where Disney's stage version of The Lion King opened last week, boasts nothing less than an entire store filled with sweatshirts, stuffed animals and other Simba memorabilia. Has there ever been a Broadway show more confident that it will run forever? It has to; how else are the kids going to pass the time before loading...
...look, the letterman." More often he simply copies Letterman's style, from the slicing hand gestures to the comedy sketches featuring crew members to the overelaborate jokes based on the day's headlines. Schmidt on a senior-citizens home for gay people that has just opened in Amsterdam: "It's fantastic. When an 83-year-old is admitted, the word goes out [switching to an effeminate Dutch accent], 'Oh, fresh meat...
...play, like the diary, is not a unilaterally depressing work. The Frank family shares their hiding space, the top floors of the annex to an office building in Amsterdam, with Mr. and Mrs. Van Daan, the Van Daan's son Peter and Mr. Dussel, a dentist. Although the interaction of these characters in their tight, closed world causes a good deal of tension, there is an overarching spirit of generosity: at no time are they all reduced to despair. The eight members of this group form a loose extended family, and the most touching scenes are those that show...
...Amsterdam's Van Gogh Museum, whose still-life painting of a wine bottle and cheese has been questioned by Dorn, was also skeptical...