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...long list of names attached to a letter does not strengthen the ideas expressed by the letter. An opinion page is not a voting booth--any idea, no matter how widely held, now matter how loudly expressed, can find its way into the newspaper...
...that assassins constitute a sort of club, with past and future killers inspiring one another in a grand conspiracy. This mildly provocative notion is made silly by being rendered literal: the opening features a carnival shooting gallery and then a kind of time-warp barroom where John Wilkes Booth meets John W. Hinckley Jr., where Leon Czolgosz, killer of William McKinley, encounters Giuseppe Zangara, attempted murderer of Franklin Roosevelt. In the climax, Booth and the others show up in Dallas to persuade Lee Harvey Oswald to shoot John F. Kennedy instead of killing himself...
...Gerald Ford: Lynette ("Squeaky") Fromme, a Charles Manson disciple who is all passion and intensity; and Sara Jane Moore, a former mental patient, who in Debra Monk's stunning evocation is all matronly giggles and chilling folksiness. In other ably written scenes, Victor Garber brings condescending grandeur to Booth, Terrence Mann finds earnest simplicity in Czolgosz, Greg Germann gives a dorky sweetness to Hinckley, and Jonathan Hadary evokes hysterical egomania in Charles Guiteau, killer of James Garfield...
...Peterzell, Michael Riley, Elaine Shannon, Dick Thompson, Nancy Traver New York: Joelle Attinger, Carl Bernstein, Martha Smilgis, Naushad S. Mehta Boston: Robert Ajemian, Sam Allis, Melissa Ludtke Chicago: Gavin Scott, Barbara Dolan, Elizabeth Taylor Detroit: S.C. Gwynne Atlanta: Joseph J. Kane, Don Winbush Houston: Richard Woodbury Miami: Cathy Booth Los Angeles: Jordan Bonfante, Jonathan Beaty, Scott Brown, Jeanne McDowell, Sylvester Monroe, James Willwerth, Sally B. Donnelly San Francisco: Paul A. Witteman...
...Peterzell, Michael Riley, Elaine Shannon, Dick Thompson, Nancy Traver New York: Joelle Attinger, Carl Bernstein, Martha Smilgis, Naushad S. Mehta Boston: Robert Ajemian, Sam Allis, Melissa Ludtke Chicago: Gavin Scott, Barbara Dolan, Elizabeth Taylor Detroit: S.C. Gwynne Atlanta: Joseph J. Kane, Don Winbush Houston: Richard Woodbury Miami: Cathy Booth Los Angeles: Jordan Bonfante, Jonathan Beaty, Scott Brown, Jeanne McDowell, Sylvester Monroe, James Willwerth San Francisco: Paul A. Witteman...