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WHERE THE HEART IS. Can a spoiled Manhattan family find happiness squatting in - a Brooklyn hovel? Why, sure. Can top director John Boorman (Hope and Glory) make a Disney comedy? Well, no. Dabney Coleman supplies the (few forced) laughs, Uma Thurman the redeeming prurient interest...
...profiting from insider trading. The Government then got Levine to implicate Ivan Boesky, a Wall Street speculator, who was fined $100 million for insider trading. He in turn agreed to help prosecutors pursue Milken, who had become the ultimate Mr. Big. (Boesky, bearded and gaunt, now resides in a Brooklyn halfway house, where he is completing a three-year prison sentence...
Sadly, however, the production's cosmetic failings distract one's attention for much of the first act. The two story set in the Mather House TV room is impressive, but much more reminiscent of a college dormitory than a postwar Brooklyn home. Which is fine, because Blumenthal's Jack, who claims to be 55 years old, doesn't look a day over 25. He fits right...
These occasional distractions tend to make the early stages of Broadway Bound slow going. But as the play gets under way, the quality of the performances eclipses such minor technical problems, and it becomes difficult to avoid immersing oneself in the drama of the Brooklyn family's troubles...
Letter carriers usually fret about dogs; now they're worried about copycats. Postal workers are afraid that mail bombings in the South, which left a federal judge and a civil rights lawyer dead, were models for two unrelated episodes last week. In Brooklyn, a booby-trapped .22-cal. sawed-off rifle, which failed to go off, was mailed in a briefcase to a federal prosecutor. In Houston a Pentecostal minister's daughter suffered burns when she opened an exploding parcel addressed to her father...