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...insanely funny play on precisely that premise. Act I of Noises Off consists of the dress rehearsal of Act I of Nothing On, a play that is about to tour the provinces. The set is a cheerfully bright living room with stairs leading up to bedrooms and a clothes closet. The house appears to be deserted. But no, Mrs. Clacket (Patricia Routledge), the housekeeper, is on the premises. Routledge is a one-woman aviary, walking, cawing and almost flying like a bird...
...charming relationship develops between the creature, millions of miles away from home, and the child, fatherless and ostracized as a weirdo by the gang. Elliott (Henry Thomas) makes his new friend feel at home in the toy closet, feeding him with periodic refrigerator raids. The two become so close that they even begin to feel the same things. When E.T., upstairs, accidentally opens an umbrella, Elliott, downstairs, jumps in surprise. The next day E.T., left home alone, discovers the wonders of earthling beer. Elliott, at school, gets drunk. In fact, Elliott, with his teenaged brother and little sister, Gertie, succeed...
...world leaders were dazzled by Reagan's blue-and-gray plaid, wait until they see the one he has stashed away in his closet. It has the identical cut and pattern, only in brown. White House strategists believe the President should spring it on Leonid Brezhnev in the fall, provided the Soviet leader has recovered his health...
...unnamed here only be cause he is unknown. But we know that he must exist in some form or other because the Landsdowne Shop, inside Fenway Park by the rightfield entrance, regularly sells these shorts (size 32-40) for $4.95 We could in fact, fill a fan's entire closet with goods from this souvenir store, including t-shirts, sweat shirts, jackets, v-neck sweaters and neckties, all bearing the Bosox emblem...
...seems to be enough material there for 20 expeditions." One of them will be led by Clark. This fall, he plans to return to Awash in hopes of push ing "knowledge of human origins even deeper into the past." And perhaps un earthing even humbler skeletons in the human closet. - By Frederic Golden. Reported by Tom Johnson/San Francisco