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Gasser would have applied to drama schools this year, but all of the auditions were held the week her thesis was due. She couldn't do both at the same time and might audition next year. Freshman year her first role was in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, then she went on to The Glass Menagerie. "I was playing old Southern ladies all freshman year." The Harvard, Massachusetts, native is ending her acting career at Harvard playing Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire. In between she has played Juliet in Romeo and Juliet and has appeared in Richard...
Rock fans are complaining because a Beatles "classic" will be used to advertise Nike sneakers. But nobody complained when Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite was used in a commercial for cat food or the Brandenburg Concertos advertised German cars and French mustard. My heart bleeds for the Beatles fans who take the commercialization of their heroes' songs so seriously...
...facts and Goetz's own words will lead inescapably to a conviction. At midweek Waples played a two-hour tape recording made by the detectives who questioned Goetz when he surrendered to them in Concord, N.H. In it, Goetz said the four "wanted to play with me, like a cat plays with a mouse" -- before he assumed a shooter's stance and methodically emptied his pistol at his tormentors. "I know this sounds horrible," he said, "but my intention was to murder them . . . to make them suffer as much as possible...
There is not much to be said for the other performances, since the other characters are all types, one-note foils for Mandel to play off of. Besides the aforementioned Evil Brother and Idealistic Scientist, there is the Boozing Wife, the Senile Cat Lady, the Crusty Backwoodsman, the Angry Neighbor, the Venal Lawyer, and the Stuck-up In-laws. Walk is basically Mandel's showpiece, and no one is allowed to upstage...
...Florida panther has inhabited the federal endangered species list since 1967, but James Billie, chief of the Seminole Indian tribe, argues that he was not always aware of the tawny cat's protected status. In 1983 Billie killed and ate a panther on the Seminole reservation in the Everglades. Though the state charged Billie with destroying an endangered animal, the case languished & in local courts. After lengthy debate, the Justice Department has charged Billie with violating the 1973 Endangered Species Act. Although Native Americans have been convicted of trading in eagles, no court has ever decided whether Indians, whose hunting...