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Covering the war from Fort Lee, N.J., just isn't good enough. That is, not if you're CNBC's GERALDO RIVERA, the theatrical journalist who longs to be the bride at every wedding, the ham in every sandwich and, lately, the mullah in every mountain. Rivera, a veteran foreign correspondent, talked his way out of his $4 million-a-year contract after parent company NBC declined to send him to Afghanistan. Fox News grabbed the talk-show host and plans to ship him out mid-November. Rivera says he has contacts with the Northern Alliance; he previously reported from...
Even in the pre-Sept. 11 world, this silly confection, about a 20-year-old bride-to-be who invites three of her mother's ex-boyfriends to her wedding on a Greek island so she can find out which one is her father, was an escapist trifle. And the production hardly disguises the frivolousness of what is onstage: the choreography, when it can be deciphered, is unremarkable; the costumes (a mix of disco-glitz and suburban soccer mom, with an odd preponderance of swimwear) are ho-hum; and the cast, headed by Louise Pitre as the free-spirited...
...flowed toward Kandahar?trucks laden with flour, rice and other food, and a single Russian-made Taliban tank?but for the most part, people were headed the other way. There were a few vehicles carrying tires and timber, and a forlorn wedding party in four cars, the still, silent bride draped in green, bound for Pakistan. And then there were the refugees: cabs, wagons and trucks loaded with whatever possessions could be carried: cooking utensils, water buckets, cots, cradles, blankets, chickens, cattle, goats...
...show’s comic momentum is sustained through the meal by the actors’ constant interaction with the audience. Countless insights and witticisms are offered, best of all by Maria herself. Giving advice on romance to a 20-something woman, the blushing bride pauses to question the woman’s male escorts. When the three answer in the affirmative to her inquiry about whether they attended “cah-lidge,” she cautions her younger friend that she might want to look elsewhere for companionship: “Oh, they?...
...remainder of the show continues along the same course. After the bride and groom take the floor for their first dance, the audience is invited to join them. Though it’s easy during earlier parts of the show to focus solely on Italian-American jokes and the general inanity of the characters, at some point it becomes evident that there is more going...