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FACING UP TO WIDOWHOOD, LUCILLE (Diane Ladd) fakes merriness, Doris (Olympia Dukakis) makes a tart-tongued second career out of mourning, and Esther (Ellen Burstyn) remains awash in vulnerability. They are THE CEMETERY CLUB -- three nice middle-aged, middle-class Jewish ladies trying to live out their leftover lives. When Esther crosses class lines to embark tentatively on a relationship with Ben (Danny Aiello), who drives a cab, her pals send up a chorus of envy and disapproval. The acting is sharp, and Bill Duke's direction is realistically grounded. But writer Ivan Menchell Neil Simonizes loss...
...real estate and corporations of the former Allies? Was victory hollow then? Given the atrocities, is justice being confounded now? Those familiar questions were posed anew but not answered in SHIMADA, an Australian hit that arrived on Broadway last week with a starry cast (Ben Gazzara, Ellen Burstyn, Estelle Parsons and Mako) and a gongs-and-samurai dreamscape production. The plot hinged on hints that a Japanese tycoon who bids on a clapped-out bicycle factory may also be the stockade guard who tortured its founder (as recalled in gruesome flashback). But that identity was never settled. The larger debate...
...Last Jam, a portrait of composer Jelly Roll Morton. Next month Pulitzer prizewinner August Wilson's subtly tragic and robustly comic Two Trains Running will feature Larry Fishburne from the film Boyz N the Hood, while the Australian drama Shimada, about a Japanese-led corporate takeover, will offer Ellen Burstyn, Ben Gazzara and Estelle Parsons. Al Pacino opens in two one-act plays in late...
...Disney has been unable to match that success during network prime time. Though the Emmy-winning comedy The Golden Girls ranks No. 6, Disney has flubbed such efforts as The Ellen Burstyn Show and Side Kicks. But Disney is nothing if not persistent: its next offering, to start on CBS in the fall, is The Dictator, a sitcom about a deposed political strongman who sets up shop in a New York Laundromat...
...Ellen Burstyn Show (ABC). Appearing in her first TV series, Burstyn plays Ellen Brewer, a college professor who shares a house with her separated daughter and her five-year-old grandson. Her opening lines, directed to the audience, are pleasantly sardonic: "Let me tell you how much I love being called Grandma . . ." But this grandma turns quickly into a cloying paragon of hip, enlightened '80s attitudes. When her mother (Elaine Stritch) sneaks into the closet for a smoke, Ellen admonishes, "You've read the Surgeon % General's report." When the family dog is about to have puppies, Ellen argues that...