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MARRIED. TED DANSON, 47, onetime Cheers barkeep and former Whoopi Goldberg beau, and actress MARY STEENBURGEN, 42; at Danson's home on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. Celebrity attendees included Tom Hanks and the bride's old chums from Arkansas Bill and Hillary Clinton...
...Film noir also typically calls for a dash of psychopathy, and in Red Rock West that is provided by Dennis Hopper, who plays the professional killer and causes lightning flashes of madness to streak across the screen. Red Rock West has the customary film noir hint of civic corruption (barkeep Wayne is also the town sheriff) and reveals the equally conventional link between crimes present and a large crime past...
...Fosse gave Herb Gardner the nickname Whimsy. But Gardner, 58, reveals a far deeper writer in this story of a Jewish barkeep in Lower Manhattan who is sure that success will come from assimilation, endless self- reinvention and unstinting faith in the American Dream. The tale, narrated by a once rebellious son who is now himself a rebelled-against father, came from Seattle Repertory Theater to Broadway...
...same distortion of the soul destroys the people around Hickey, including, in more winsome but still painful performances, Barnard Hughes as a burned-out barkeep and Donald Moffat as a former anarchist who cannot decide whether he is more afraid of dying or of going on living. O'Neill gives each of the 17 barflies a revelatory scene, and every actor in this superb cast proves capable of that moment at center stage. The ensemble's energized acting, an apparent clash with the passivity of the text, emphasizes O'Neill's redemptive theme: that everyone, no matter how close...
...food, an inducement from the old days, is making a comeback as an alcohol absorber. Instead of simply getting blotto, early evening patrons can load up on appetizers. Many owners are glad to see happy hours on the wane, because the competitive discounting drains profits. Also, says one Boston barkeep, "nobody likes to deal with drunks...