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...20th century, raised a family, grew old, but never really got off the boat from Europe. Chenia, as Devorah reconstructs her in Carole Glickfeld's Swimming Toward the Ocean (Knopf; 388 pages; $24), lingers on a sort of moral gangplank with a view of the dazzling rides at Coney Island but with fear in her heart for the great American whirl. It's Chenia's husband who's having the good time, romping with his mistress and trying to sue himself into a fortune with harebrained legal actions. Devorah remembers it all from a remove, after having grown...
...space offered by the Mainstage. Two three tiered towers rise on either side of the set, a hydraulic lift rises and falls periodically from the center of the stage and a smaller central tower provides space for a steamy bedroom, a malfunctioning elevator, and a pair of Coney Island swings alternately...
Augustine and Walsh attack an inconsistent text with ambition and energy. It is rare to see a musical that is smart, but the direction and choreography of this production make it just that. The use of swings in the Coney Island scene provide a visual metaphor for the suburban front-porch-swing respectability for which Charity longs, and the choreography of a dance scene in which the women shake their breasts and the men perform pelvic thrusts, and then switch roles, provides a welcome gender-bender in a musical which at times seems dated. Subtle twists like these, along with...
Even the clothes Leo's wearing, the Puma cap, baggy drawstring pants, a chain with his grandmother's cross and a T shirt with a devil on it, can't have been chosen randomly. The devil is a logo for an old Coney Island carnival. "I optioned this book called Dreamland about the biggest theme park in Coney Island," he says. "My dad went to Coney Island a lot. I'm fascinated by freaks." He also optioned a book about Howard Hughes that he's talking to Michael Mann about directing. "That's the best part about the position...
First Jordan, then Gretzky, now (maybe) Nakajima. HIROFUMI NAKAJIMA of Kofu, Japan, the undisputed world hot dog-eating champion, may not return to Coney Island July 4 to try to win the Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest for a third time. The 131-lb. "Black Hole of Kofu" first won the competition in 1997, when he defeated 360-lb. Ed ("The Animal") Krachie of New York City by downing 24 1/2 dogs (plus buns). "At first they booed me, probably because I am a skinny little man," says Nakajima, who soon became a crowd favorite. A Nathan...