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...Wilder's film noir, which has been preserved more than adapted. The climax, when the fallen star Norma Desmond shoots her lover and he tumbles into a swimming pool, has opera's larger-than-life emotion. So does the denouement, as she lapses into madness and announces, to a Cecil B. DeMille visible only to her, that she is ready for her close-up. It is apt that her home now resembles the old opera house in Paris where Phantom is set and that her finale echoes the mad scene of Lucia di Lammermoor...
...decidedly different from the one imagined by Martin Luther King. Their vision allegedly went like this: a phalanx of skinheads with machine guns would invade the First African Methodist Episcopal Church in Los Angeles. The congregation would be sprayed with bullets, and the pastor, (the Rev.) Cecil Murray, would be murdered. Across the U.S., other blacks were potential targets -- Rodney King, (the Rev.) Al Sharpton, the rap group Public Enemy, perhaps even a baseball player. An all-out race war would be triggered, a final, bloody Ragnarok of the races...
Last December, with a similar $1 million grant from the Walt Disney Co., the city's First African Methodist Episcopal Church launched a Renaissance Program of 20 entrepreneurial projects. Among them: a loan plan that the church's pastor, the Rev. Cecil Murray, says will renovate 35 existing black businesses in Los Angeles, start up 35 new ones and employ 350 people. "Spiritual development cannot take place without economic development," Murray says of the church's economic gospel. Says Danny Bakewell: "It has to be an active principle. It is not something that you can just talk about on Sunday...
...lineup card comes fully equipped with a perfect square destined to contain each player's position. Batters also, in fact, must field. I should qualify that. Batters like, say, Cecil Fielder, play defense in their spare time. Certain natural fielders, though they are not Fielders, are also granted one of those nine vaunted spots on a lineup card. For ten years, Cal Ripken Jr. has held his spot at shortstop for the Baltimore Orioles...
...Hearse. Randall is decades too old for his role and tries to compensate with Shirley Temple cuteness. Klugman, who has had throat surgery, speaks in a rasp that is always painful and only sometimes comprehensible from the seventh row. The play, which George Abbott adapted from John Cecil Holm's work Hobby Horses, was written for the more indulgent audiences of 58 years ago. Perhaps its cheery view of compulsive gambling, drinking until passing out, male dominance and spousal abuse seemed innocuous then; it is repellent today. The performances are even coarser. While the second half is at least less...