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...COCKTAIL HOUR Playwright A.R. Gurney is at his peak in this charming Wasp family comedy about a writer's relatives yearning for privacy, transplanted intact from San Diego's Old Globe. Nancy Marchand glows as the slightly sozzled matriarch...
...precisely that ability to wreck the dialogue with one well-placed Molotov cocktail that makes this tentative and guarded rapprochement so fragile. Anti-Arafat radicals in the occupied territories are reportedly planning to launch attacks against Israeli targets to show that Arafat's renunciation of terrorism does not apply to them. It may be cynical but it is not unthinkable to fear extremist Israelis might seek a similar escalation of violence to prevent a dialogue that they like no better. Another danger for Arafat is the one that has kept him on the move for more than two decades...
Obviously, Julius Benedict (Schwarzenegger) and Vincent Benedict (DeVito) are fraternal, not identical, twins. They are the spawn of a Government-funded experiment in which a carefully selected woman is artificially inseminated with a spermatozoic cocktail to which six males have each made a high-grade genetic contribution. Julius, brainy, built and, as it happens, morally impeccable, is the predictable result. Vincent is the unanticipated consequence...
...wasn't a diplomat. I was an international civil servant, which is a completely different thing. I don't like the word diplomat, actually. The ordinary person thinks of people in striped pants at a cocktail party or at a green baize table engaging in circumlocutions about serious matters. I was brought up between the wars, in a very dreary period of European history. I had always wanted to work for the League of Nations, but it went out of business before I got into the game...
...contrast, is still a novice in the acting department. But the show is an unmistakable expression of her comic persona. Born in Salt Lake City to a Jewish family, Barr, 36, quit high school and moved to Colorado, married at 21 and had three children. While working as a cocktail waitress, she started appearing at Denver comedy clubs. After moving to Los Angeles in 1985, she became a regular at the Comedy Store and landed some TV guest shots, gaining a following with her caustic, straight- from-the-heartland comments on the trials of housewifehood...