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RICHARD III. Ontario's Stratford Festival shows why it has become the biggest repertory company in North America in this robust 51-actor staging. Colm Feore cackles, skitters and charms as Shakespeare's bottled-spider King...
Just as the moral center of Hugo's Les Miserables is Valjean, so the driving force of the stage show is Colm Wilkinson. An Irish singer largely untrained as an actor until he originated the role in London, Wilkinson, 43, has a superb pop-rock voice, whether in the assertive Who Am I or the wistful Bring Him Home. Unexpectedly, he encompasses the outsize moral stature of Valjean, making believable both his general saintliness and his outbursts of animal ferocity. Only one other member of the original cast is in the U.S. company: Frances Ruffelle, who as a tomboyish adolescent...
...Colm Wilkinson and Roger Allam carry the show as Jean Valjean, the released convict seeking to escape his past, and Javert, the righteous police inspector who hounds him across France for nearly two decades. Patti LuPone, an American who won a 1980 Tony Award for her starring role in Evita, has powerful scenes as an unwed mother who in desperation becomes a prostitute. The real star, however, is Nunn's staging. He sometimes spoils one effect with the hasty arrival of the next, but his conceptions are clear and simple. Almost every manifestation of evil, from Valjean's skulking emergence...
...letter to the New England Journal of Medicine, Dublin Gynecologist Colm O'Herlihy notes the case of two women in their mid-20s who regularly ran about 20 miles a week. Both had stopped taking birth-control pills a year ago, and neither had menstruated since. O'Herlihy prescribed high doses of the fertility drug clomiphene citrate but without result. Finally, he asked his patients to lay off the trackwork. Within eight weeks, both had ovulated while taking half the original doses of clomiphene. Shortly thereafter both became pregnant...