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...Game 2 of the series, Bennett Salvatore hit Golden State star point guard Baron Davis with a technical foul for a similarly mild offense. It was his second tech of the game, so Davis was also ejected. Last Thursday Dick Bevetta, a 32-year league veteran, rushed across the court to call a tech on Houston Rockets forward Juwan Howard in Game 6 of the Rockets-Jazz series. This call was particularly confounding since Utah's Mehmet Okur, not Howard, had instigated a mini-scuffle after the Houston forward committed a tough, but not intentional, foul. Last weekend, referee...
...Michael Bennett's original production was smart, lavish and cutting. During the "Who's That Woman?" number, in which the aging chorines come to terms with the difference between the 20- and 50-year-old selves, Bennett lowered a stage-wide mirror that caught both the middle-aged actresses on stage and the middle-aged audience, staring at the women and sharing their discomfort. In the second act, the animosities festering in the two main couples explodes into rancorous fantasy in the faux-Ziegfeld "Loveland" section, and Bennett gave Sondheim's comic-poignant torch songs and novelty numbers a splendor...
...Nickolaw couldn't match Bennett for sumptuousness - Encores! revivals are staged with just the hint of scenery - but he found so much meaning and ache in the show that it didn't matter. Stripped of its finery, Follies was now pure and profound. He also seamlessly integrated the older stars playing the 1970s characters with the young actors playing their 1940s incarnations, cheerful and naive, committing the one forgivable sin of youth: to hope...
...with reporting by Brian Bennett, Mark Thompson and Adam Zagorin/Washington
...these cases the symbol is the sin: Congressman Mark Foley was the Capitol Crusader against pedophilia before his own leering e-mails surfaced; virtuecrat Bill Bennett's gambling habit started with church bingo; Al Gore just got permission to install solar panels on his house, which has been reported to use 20 times the energy of an average-size home...