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...stage before Duke Theseus in honor of his wedding. The play's most richly, broadly comic scenes fall to these characters, and the actors in this production pull off them off with sheer genius. As individual comic actors, the players are consistently hilarious; as a group, they forge a bond of buffoonery that transcends description. Their crowning glory--the final scene of the play, in which their "comical tragedy" is at last presented before the court--could hardly be better executed than it is by these players...
...course, their bond with one another doesn't matter all that much if they don't also connect with their audience. McNally wrote Frankie and Johnny early in his career, before Master Class and Love! Valour! Compassion! made him a latter-day B-way comic bard. Here, he plays the beginner's trick of substituting theme or plot with sparkling layers of verbal gift wrap...
...Thursday speech on the state of the economy. "Greenspan Hints Fed Will Let Rates Stand" was the headline in Friday's Washington Post, while USA Today preferred "Greenspan Hints at New Rate Increase." The New York Times went with a literal "Greenspan Defends Fed's Rate Policy." Meanwhile, bond traders hit the phones with sell orders, betting that a May 20th rise in interest rates was in the cards. Friday, by the time stock markets opened, investors were following the Post's view that Greenspan's remarks mean a rise is now less likely. The Dow quickly...
...position as a drill sergeant to intimidate women into submitting to him sexually. But recruiting stations present their own challenges to an Army trying to crack down on sexual harassment. Recruiters and their customers tend to be far from military headquarters, and oversight is minimal. The isolation creates a bond among recruiters that can lead them to count on their buddies to lie for them. In one case, "all of the recruiters in the station conspired to withhold information from me as an act of self-protection," an investigating officer wrote. In another case, a local commander was reprimanded...
...retrospective of Yeoh's films (which can also be found in specialty video stores) this week and next at New York City's Cinema Village Theatre. But the actress is getting more than kudos; she's getting work. Yeoh (pronounced Yo) is now filming the new James Bond epic, Tomorrow Never Comes, as 007's partner. "I won't be a stereotyped Suzie Wong," she says proudly. "With this movie we're beginning a new generation of Bond girls...