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...don’t have that kind of quick wit. It’s mostly confined to the hilarious comedies of the 1930s, particularly “Stage Door,” the timeless story of a boardinghouse full of young actresses trying to make it on Broadway. If modern heroines were witty enough, it’s easy to imagine the story transplanted to modern L.A. But no one could replace the whip-smart original cast, which features Katherine Hepburn, Ginger Rodgers and a young Lucille Ball. The wit comes fast and loaded, as do all movies based...
NURSE CAROL HATHAWAY The creepy family reunion Julianna Margulies attends with Ali MacGraw in Broadway's Festen gets dark, but having survived being left by George Clooney's Dr. Ross, she should get through...
...ABBY LOCKHART In Neil LaBute's off-Broadway black comedy Some Girl(s), with Eric McCormack, opening in May, Maura Tierney plays the girl who got away--a nice change from Abby, the girl who got to intubate...
FESTEN DAVID ELDRIDGE Family get-togethers arehardly rare on Broadway, but rarely are they so disorienting or ominous as this one is. It's not just the revelation about sexual abuse that son Christian lays on the guests at his father's 60th-birthday party but also the eerie nonreaction to it--the way the placid surface of programmed jollity barely ripples. That, along with the stark, almost abstract staging by director Rufus Norris, gives this London import (an adaptation of the Danish film The Celebration) the hollow, haunted feel of Samuel Beckett, not Arthur Miller. With a strong...
...Messenger News published an article about a girl from Montana who won her regional spelling bee after 41 rounds of head-to-head spelling competition. Wow! Competitive spelling has been in the public eye for some time now. From movies like “Spellbound” to the Broadway play “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” to the ESPN airing of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, it seems to be that we like to watch spelling, though sometimes critically. We observe, literally spellbound, as contestants string together letters in the unlikeliest of ways...