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...after a dueling-banjos press conference between Judiciary Committee Chairman Henry Hyde and official minority wag Barney Frank, the timetable was set: the Clinton tapes, along with 3,183 pages of transcripts and additional materials, will hit the airwaves at 9:00 ET Monday morning. Republicans, naturally, want to convict the President in the court of public opinion, and Democrats -- well, Democrats would obviously like this whole thing to go back in the vault. Consequence: the statesmanship charade is off. "If this is bipartisanship, then the Taliban wins the medal for religious tolerance," Frank quipped after the vote. Hyde answered...
...have long dismissed him as a hopeless pop sellout. Whistle Down the Wind drew predictably mixed reviews, and its future looks cloudy. Yet it marks a step in the right direction for Lloyd Webber. The story, based on the 1961 British film about three children who discover an escaped convict in their barn and mistake him for Jesus Christ, has a welcome modesty and warmth, a far cry from the chilly Gothic pretensions of Phantom and Sunset Boulevard. The setting has been shifted from northern England to 1950s Louisiana, which allows the mostly British cast--particularly the children--to offer...
...Charming convict Jack Foley (George Clooney) breaks out of prison. When U.S. marshal Karen Sisco (Jennifer Lopez), conveniently parked nearby, tries to block his egress, Foley shoves her into a car trunk, hops in and tells his pal (Ving Rhames) to drive. It's certainly a cute way to meet; after the long car ride, the two are besotted with each other. Sisco chases Foley to Detroit, where he's planning to relieve a fellow ex-com of five million dollars worth of diamonds, and she certainly does find...
...characters occupy the play's more complex moral center: the warden's new secretary (Sherri Parker Lee), who can't reveal the brutality she sees for fear of losing a job she desperately needs, and a convict called Canary Jim (Finbar Lynch), who has ingratiated himself with the warden by ratting on other inmates. Jim is the most recognizable Williams character, a stunted romantic who scoffs at Keats (when he starts writing, Jim vows, it won't be about nightingales) yet proves himself an idealist in a pinch...
...other, the warden's office, where every prop--desk, telephone, picture frames, even the American flag--is a grim steel gray. He doesn't soften the melodramatic excesses, yet he emphasizes the metaphorical overtones. There are references to Mussolini and Hitler ("that monkey with the trick mustache"); a Jewish convict laments, "I come of a people that are used to suffer"; and the harrowing scenes in the prison's steamy torture chamber are an eerie foreshadowing of Auschwitz...