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...Niebusch and Bob Tschida couldn't quite figure out what they were dealing with. They shone a spotlight into the back window, and a startled Mary jumped from under the covers she and Vili were sharing and into the driver's seat. She at first lied and said her companion was 18, and Vili pretended to be asleep. But the officers questioned him and learned his age. He had just turned 13. Even as Mary tried to explain herself--there was a fight with my husband; we were just sleeping; I often watch Vili--they were concerned enough to call...
...affection. On her part, though, that develops into something a little more intense, especially when she contrasts his sweetness to the abrasiveness of her straight lover, Vince (John Pankow). Those feelings grow when she discovers that she's pregnant and that George is a much more supportive prenatal companion than Vince. Maybe, she thinks, he'd be a better father too. As for sex, well, as someone once said, nobody's perfect. And George does encouragingly tell her that he once had a not entirely disagreeable heterosexual affair...
...nice muddle, especially since Wasserstein provides the couple with all kinds of complications. She has rich, interfering relatives (Alan Alda and the divinely bitchy Allison Janney). He soon has a new gay flame (Amo Gulinello) whose worldly-wise longtime companion (wonderfully portrayed by Nigel Hawthorne) gets hurt as hard as Nina does. But it's also too much of a muddle. There is no logical way to arrange the kind of romantic reconciliation the writer, director (Nicholas Hytner) and we desperately want to enjoy. For neither Wasserstein nor Rudd quite wants to come to grips with the fact that George...
...midst of a weighty discussion between the "Unidentified Guest" and Edward Chamberlayne (Sam Shaw '99), the troubled husband whose marriage is the subject of the play, the hysterical, aunt-like Julia (Emily Stone '99) rushes in to retrieve her lost umbrella and maternally questions Edward about his seemingly drunken companion. We wish we could parrot her seeming naivete...
DIED. DAVE POWERS, 85, constant companion and amiable aide-de-camp of John F. Kennedy; in Arlington, Mass. Powers joined congressional candidate Kennedy in 1946 and stayed with him all the way to the White House and beyond. Powers was riding in the presidential motorcade the day Kennedy was shot, and he accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy on the flight of Air Force One back to Washington. At one point she turned to him and said, "Oh, Dave, you've been with him all these years. What will you do now?" The answer was to continue to serve, as a companion...