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...side characters are truly outstanding. Sol Kim '02-previously seen on the Harvard stage in the Lowell House Opera production of The Beggar's Opera-in the role of Dame Hannah, Rose's spinster Aunt, puts so much comic energy into her part that she lights up every scene in which she appears. Furthermore, it is easy to realize that Kim is enjoying herself on stage and having a great time as Hannah, allowing her to avoid succumbing to potential silliness, as sporadically happens to Karoun Demirjian '03 in playing the village lunatic, Mad Margaret (although it seems to have...

Author: By Marcelline Block, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Topsy-Turvy Marriage | 4/14/2000 | See Source »

...Buddy Lembeck's hilarious antics land him in a big mess, as his psychology study results in his commitment to a mental institution. Charles enlists the help of Walter Powell and Aunt Lillian to bust Buddy out, but ends up being detained in the asylum himself! Ben Stein does a star turn in the role of a mental patient...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Groovy Train: Very Special Episodes | 3/16/2000 | See Source »

That sort of reticence proved deadly for the late Charles Schulz, beloved creator of Peanuts, who resisted being tested despite the fact that his mother, two uncles and an aunt died of colon cancer. By the time physicians discovered his tumor last fall, it had spread to his stomach lining, and there was little they could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Katie's Crusade | 3/13/2000 | See Source »

...good idea to keep track of other diseases that have affected your family. There's growing evidence that uterine and ovarian cancer may be genetically related to colon cancer. So if your Aunt Mary died of uterine cancer, don't assume you're in the clear if you've had a hysterectomy or if you're a man. You could be at greater risk of colon cancer as well. The same holds true if you suffer from inflammatory conditions of the intestines, like Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Katie's Crusade | 3/13/2000 | See Source »

...reform.) Like its forebear, this uneven but worthwhile film is less about sex than its aftermath. In "1961," Vanessa Redgrave, whose lover of 50 years has died, meets the woman's nephew, arrived to dispose of the house he's inherited and clueless about the lifestyle of his "maiden aunt." Redgrave deftly sketches the quiet hell of a woman unable to share her grief for her "friend" with the unwitting in-laws. A butch townie (Chloe Sevigny of Boys Don't Cry) in "1972" rattles her college-student lover's gay-feminist pals, for whom short hair means gender treachery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: It's Les-bien | 3/13/2000 | See Source »

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