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...open. It did -- to reveal an avenging angel that was just one of the acts of theatrical and metaphysical daring in this brilliant if roughhewn jumble of politics, fantasy and farce. The full Angels debuted memorably at Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum, starring Ron Leibman as Republican dealmaker Roy Cohn...
...center of a slender and increasingly metaphysical plot are broken troths, gay and straight, and the socially rich yet emotionally solitary life of Roy Cohn, the lawyer and dealmaker who denied his homosexuality up to the moment of his death from AIDS...
...BOTTOM LINE: An AIDS epic dazzlingly blends sitcom, the supernatural and the ghost of Roy Cohn...
...Cohn is the ideal villain. He stole from clients. He corrupted the political system. He illegally lobbied a judge to secure the execution of Ethel Rosenberg (who haunts Cohn in his dying days, then says the Kaddish over his corpse, ending with a blasphemous but heartfelt "son of a bitch"). But for Kushner's polemical purposes, Cohn's greatest evil was his willingness to tolerate, in fact promote, discrimination against gays even as he secretly enjoyed boundless gay sex. He is embodied with robust humor and seductive malevolence by Kushner and actor Ron Leibman, who make Cohn a villain...
...everybody hates him. The Benito Mussolini of baseball. The Roy Cohn of sports. Choose your metaphor. (Cohn and Steinbrenner were actually buddies; the Boss' links with Il Duce are more shadowy.) If men are defined by their enemies, Winfield stacks up quite well...