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...MOST HAPPY FELLA. A Frank Loesser minifestival seems to be under way with a superb staging of this musical drama about a mail-order bride at Connecticut's Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam and another planned at the New York City Opera, and with a revival of his Guys and Dolls that is scheduled to open on Broadway next spring...
Much of Sunday Dinner, to be sure, goes for familiar secular laughs. Loggia and his fiance make jokes about their age difference; the kids pester Dad with nutty problems; middle-aged friends do double takes at Dad's young bride-to- be. This laugh-track world, however, is interrupted by TT's private chats with the Almighty. "How does anyone wake up on a morning like this and not believe in some version of you?!" she exclaims at the start of one episode. Loggia is wary but tolerant of her chirpy spirituality; the kids are overtly & skeptical. At one family...
...blasted hopes of Kim, a country maiden turned bar girl turned bride-to- be turned stateless refugee, are a paradigm for all the promises that Western powers made but failed to keep in Vietnam and other colonies. Her yearning is echoed comically and tragically in her sometime pimp, a Eurasian hustler called the Engineer, whose vision of the U.S. is a pathetic pop mishmash of the Statue of Liberty, big white Cadillacs and Fred Astaire, but whose one certainty is that he was born to live the American Dream -- a hope he will never fulfill. The propulsive narrative works...
Marsha Bristow Bostick of Columbus remembers noticing with alarm last summer that her three-year-old daughter Betsy had memorized an awful lot of TV commercials. The toddler announced that she planned to take ballet lessons, followed by bride lessons. That helped inspire her mother, then 37, to quit her $150,000-a-year job as a marketing executive. She and her husband, Brent, a bank officer, decided that Betsy and their infant son Andrew needed more parental attention if they were going to develop the right sort of values. Marsha explained, "I found myself wondering, How wealthy...
...women who fell for Taylor were, to put it mildly, unlucky in love. He abandoned his first wife when she was nine months pregnant and tried unsuccessfully to chloroform his second to death. Taylor brutally assaulted his third bride -- bright, insecure, eager-to-please Teresa Benigno of Staten Island, N.Y. -- on their Acapulco honeymoon. A year later, he bludgeoned her to death with a barbell, drove about the country for four days with her , disfigured body in the trunk and then abandoned car and corpse in eastern Pennsylvania. Under police questioning, he confessed to the crime but claimed that...