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...actors and producers expertly impaled on Frank Rich's pen during his 1980-93 run as "the Butcher of Broadway" (a.k.a. the drama critic for the New York Times), there are, in his new memoir, a couple of bombshells: Rich has a heart, and that heart loves the theater passionately and needily. Ghost Light (Random House; 311 pages; $24.95) is really two memoirs. The first is about--surprise!--a troubled childhood. The second is a tender reminiscence of the American theater of the '50s and '60s. Where Ghost Light often excels is where the two meet: the critic's evolving...
...such egocentrism--the belief that great events and works speak to you personally--is also a foundation of the critic's craft. At The Music Man, Rich empathizes with the disillusioned, fatherless boy Winthrop: "'Hurry up and leave!' he yelled at the Music Man," he writes, "his sobs now more hurt than sad--another sound I recognized. He wanted the Music Man to stay and be his father." Ghost Light ends as Rich leaves home for college, but in this eloquent book, we already see him becoming a critic and art lover in the truest, deepest sense. In the process...
After 13 years as the chief theater critic for The Times, Rich shifted gears in 1993 to write a column for the op-ed page, which he described as an ideal but daunting...
Having proven itself to opponents and ranking committees all year long, the Harvard women's soccer team now faces its toughest critic--the state of Pennsylvania...
...Henderson is trying to shake up the system. Last month word leaked that he and Fred Smith, founder and CEO of Federal Express, were putting the finishing touches on a broad alliance--a striking move, since Smith has long been an outspoken critic of the USPS Although details are still sketchy, the deal would reportedly give the government carrier access to the air network of the company, which is based in Memphis, Tenn. In return, the blue-uniformed postal workers would pick FedEx packages up from your door and deliver them right to your door. In effect, that would hand...