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...Charles Busch's campy 1985 hit Vampire Lesbians of Sodom, the two ageless, eponymous hags decide to take their act on the road. Tahoe, Chicago, Boston and then the glittering climax -- Broadway! Well, dears, that's one faded dream. The Great White Way still welcomes the big musicals, those theme parks with song cues, and a few dramas (usually developed elsewhere, often with subsidies). But it is now only one stop -- perhaps the biggest, and at $75 a top ticket surely the priciest -- on the world tour of hits. For original work, for vitality and glamour, more than ever...
...faith in ourselves and our families, we are honor bound to believe each tearful young mother, to pray for the dog-and-helicopter searches and to wear psychological, if not literal, yellow ribbons. But even as we do so, again and again, we are coming to realize that the climax of such searches is seldom a tearful reunion or even an apprehended bad guy. Far more often, it is a recanting, a tormented regression from "she was stolen" to "she fell" to "I may have dropped her" to "I hit her with a big rock...
...father. Henry allows the truly revolting creature to cry softly for days, taking care of it when it becomes sick, sitting up with it, before he finally loses control and attempts to kill the child. The result of this rejection is, suffice to say, horrific enough to become the climax of even a David Lynch film. The monster's relationship with the creator/father is one of competition and resentment for affection not bestowed...
This weekend's Harvard Invitational would seem like the calm before the storm for Harvard's women's volleyball team. The meet comes one week before the climax of the team's season, the Ivy League Championship, and will have virtually no bearing on Ivy League regular season standings...
...match the caliber of these two and serve to weigh down and drag out the play. Ryan McCarthy's portrayal of Mark, the strung-out schizoid 'Nam vet, is so one-note that the revelation that he participated in a fragging incident, which should have been the climax of McCarthy's portrayal, gets lost in all the raving. Danielle Sherrod, as Carla, a flamboyant would-be sex goddess, is engaging and humorous at first. But her portrayal, too, is so intense as to lack dynamic, and her story, though flecked with comic moments, is ultimately predictable: good girl with high...