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ENGAGED. POPEYE, hard-bodied spinach aficionado; to his sweetheart of 70 years, OLIVE OYL. The heretofore noncommittal couple will wed next month in a special comic book called The Wedding of Popeye and Olive. Bluto has been invited...
DIED. JEAN-CLAUDE FOREST, 68, comic-strip artist; near Paris. Best remembered as the creator of the sci-fi cheesecake character Barbarella, he also designed the sets for the 1968 Jane Fonda film...
Picasso at the Lapin Agile, comedian Steve Martin's 1996 take on the conundrums that the young geniuses Pablo Picasso and Albert Einstein might have faced, contains heterogeneous elements running from unabashed sexuality to out-landish predictions about the future, all presented in a sometimes comic, sometimes tragic mode. However, the play's overarching theme is the question of what the twentieth century holds in store for humankind. Watching this thought-provoking piece at the end of 1998, near the threshhold of the 21st century, is a most meaningful experience...
...superb cast, including students from Emerson College, professional actors and Harvard's own Adam "Waka" Green '99. Green gave a show-stopping, bust-your-gut hilarious performance as the would-be genius Schmendiman, inventor of some rather bizarre (and useless) creations. Green stole the show, providing some needed comic relief. He kept the audience laughing with his portrayal of the bold, overly confident Schmendiman--a perfect foil to the more thoughtful and modest Picasso and Einstein, who are destined to become the "true" geniuses...
...prefer to play comic or tragic characters...