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...Aretha, Mr. Rogers, and the Ruskies...
...censors the various types of entertainment that play in the Square's smallest theater. When a bunch of drunken men wearing Harvard football jackets begin insulting women and cursing, Karl responds. "Cut it out, this is a PG joint," he yells above the din of "Pink Cadillac" by Aretha Franklin...
...taunts of the Angels ("My boyfriend's back, he's gonna save my reputation/ If I were you I'd take a permanent vacation"). They squirm a bit at the references to J.F.K.'s assassination and the Viet Nam War, then perk up for so-fine evocations of Aretha Franklin, Tina Turner and Janis Joplin. The '60s and some of its prime shakers are dead, but the decade's survivors figure they can revive it by repackaging it. Beehive is a cherry Coke cabaret show with plenty of fizz, American Graffiti without the plot, Dreamgirls with no production values...
...Jasmine Guy, a Diana Ross with funk, does proud by the Tina Turner anthem River Deep -- Mountain High. Laura Theodore works her heft, raunch and four-octave range on a rendition of Ball and Chain that could raise the dead, including Janis Joplin. And to hear Gina Taylor attack Aretha's Do Right Woman -- Do Right Man (four minutes of riffs that ascend into the ionosphere of emotional pride and pain) is to feel a standing ovation from the hairs on the back of your neck. "We're not trying to impersonate the singers," says Theodore, 28. "We want...
...first victim, Annie Copeland, 84, was found slaughtered in her run- down apartment on March 1. Her apartment had been ransacked; she had been suffocated with a pillow and raped. Then, on March 6, Aretha Clements, 60, was discovered by her son: she had been strangled, raped and robbed. On March 11, Dena Mae Mike, 62, blind and living only a mile away from the others, became the third victim. By the time the body of Grace Hill, 68, was discovered on April 9, the police had already formed a task force to investigate the similarities in the murders...