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...Diabetes, Efron steals the show with his clever timing, rich accents, witty facial expressions, and zany physical displays. In one particularly droll soliloquy, he flounders on his hands and knees, eyes pleading toward the sky, moaning "I'm tired, weary, sick...All around me men dying, war and misery, brother against brother...

Author: By Phoebe Cushman, | Title: Acting, Direction Make for Lively 'Life' and 'God': | 3/19/1992 | See Source »

...example, reported that sales of its $129 antiviral program jumped 700% in one month. Central Point gave away thousands of copies of another, smaller program designed to destroy Michelangelo and a second virus set to strike this week, on Friday the 13th. But included in that freebie was a clever marketing tool for the company's full-powered program: a list of 1,007 other viruses that could still be lurking in the soul of your machine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ding! Whrrrrrrrrrrrr. Crash! | 3/16/1992 | See Source »

Zora is back from the dead, and she's ready to take on her impotent fiancee, his lover and an 18-year-old homosexual production assistant, all in the courtroom of her own kitchen. So begins Zora's Kitchen, as cast and audience embark on a fantastically clever and witty journey, replete with an arsenal of frying pans, phone sex and fornication...

Author: By Esme Howard, | Title: Wild Romp of Death and Sex at the Ex: | 3/12/1992 | See Source »

...repressed homosexual producer and fiance, starts out a little slow but soon eases into his character. Strutting about the stage, he makes great strides to assert his masculinity, making fun of "faggot beer" while defending the presence of the woman on the St. Pauli Girl bottle with the clever retort, "Yeah, but she's a whore." As the plot thickens and Peter is able to coerce him into sex, he reluctantly begins to admit that he enjoys it, and his faltering machismo is the source of much laughter...

Author: By Esme Howard, | Title: Wild Romp of Death and Sex at the Ex: | 3/12/1992 | See Source »

Zora's Kitchen, although at times unnecessarily profane, is brazen and bold. It is a clever mockery of and quasi-investigation into age-old and contemporary questions--what does it mean to be an artist? a lover? or just a repressed asshole in the ad industry in New York in the '90s--all done with a healthy heaping of satire. You may go away horny, but you won't go away hungry...

Author: By Esme Howard, | Title: Wild Romp of Death and Sex at the Ex: | 3/12/1992 | See Source »

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