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Unlike most modern plays, The Diary of Anne Frank tells a simple story simply, and this is precisely what makes it an effective drama. James Lapine's new production, in town for a limited engagement before moving on to Broadway, understands this well. It preserves the candor of Anne's diaries on stage, bringing the audience directly into her world. Although the play has been adapted to include some newly published material from the diary, the spirit remains the same: a straightforward communication of what it was like to be an ebullient, hopeful young girl forced to live in fear...
...about JENNY MCCARTHY--the words trashy, vacuous and semitalented come swiftly to mind--one certainly can't accuse her of taking herself too seriously or being coy. In her new book, Jen-X (for which she was reportedly paid more than $1 million), McCarthy confesses with unstarlike candor that she wet her bed until she was seven, spread a rumor that a girl at her school was a lesbian and peed in a guy's bed after a drunken date. Also that her breasts are fake and she dropped out of college after a petty theft. And, scariest...
...really amplify our sexy lingerie, which is what people want to spice up a relationship," says Phelps, the picture of candor. "It's all about looking good when you're getting naked...
...wind down our awards presentation, we'd like to offer some advice for our hep-cat profs. Ditch buzz phrases such as "politics of identity" or "in postmodern thought." Don't use more than one set of quotation marks per blurb. Take a lesson in candor from Professor Willie...
Outside of the temples of high finance, Soros was almost unknown until the early 1990s. On Wall Street he is judged the greatest hedge-fund investor of our time. With characteristic candor, he says he "carved myself a place on Mount Rushmore as a money manager." An investment of $100,000 with Soros in 1969 would be worth $300 million today...