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...prefrontal lobotomy, closet homosexuality and cannibalism. If the subject matter no longer shocks, the play itself can still thrill, given the right actors. In PBS's Great Performances presentation, it has them, mostly. Maggie Smith, as Sebastian's aloof, vindictive mother, and especially Natasha Richardson, as his possibly insane cousin, who was with him when he died, are superb adversaries, both of them informing Williams' lyrical dialogue with the rich emotional life it must have. Only Rob Lowe fails, more callow med student than the requisite mediating psychiatrist...
...Washington with heaps of '90s cynicism and '60s righteousness. Thomas Jefferson Johnson (Murphy) is no saintly Jefferson Smith from the Frank Capra classic; he is a shakedown artist improbably elected to Congress who is tempted, then troubled, by corrupting PACS and perks. A pity that director Jonathan Lynn (My Cousin Vinny) lacks the daredevil touch for a blend of 60 Minutes and Saturday Night Live. Murphy still has his supernova smile and a gift for acute accents -- Chinese, Yiddish, white-bread, soul-food -- but this frail, do-gooder comedy seems a holding action until Fast Eddie regains his stride...
...Museum of Applied Art, five women stand sobbing in front of the photographs of the burned and mutilated Serbian victims of Vukovar. The women's shoulders heave, tears flood their cheeks. They point to the savaged bodies in the pictures: That was a cousin. That was a brother. That was a husband...
...candidates for public office also contributes to the government's loss of dignity and subsequent inability to inspire or lead the people. In the name of "the people's right to know" or "checks on government power," the dignity of a candidate is demolished by questions about his third cousin's sex life, sophomoric satires and photos of him in the bathtub with his rubber duckie...
While on weekend leave, my cousin Shlomi's commander dropped by for coffee, without either the battle fatigues or imposing manner one would expect from a platoon leader. After he left I asked Shlomi who this friendly guy was. Shlomi replied, "That's Dudu (a common Hebrew nickname for guys named David). He's a close friend and he's also my boss...