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...three most famous set pieces-Cyrano's duel while composing a poem, the balcony scene in which the shy cavalier ventriloquizes his love for Roxane (Sinead Cusack) through the voice of his friend Christian (Tom Mannion), and Cyrano's lingering death-Hands does go full throttle. So does the star, Derek Jacobi, in the rising-geyser cadences that just about every serious English actor of the past 20 years has borrowed from Laurence Olivier. In his best roles Jacobi finds heroism in gray ordinariness: the stammering honesty of Claudius in TV's I, Claudius, the grace...
...about every British playwright of manners from Congreve to Coward and beyond. While Hero and Claudio played out their fustian collision of chivalry and jealousy at center court, Beatrice and Benedick stood on the sidelines, exchanged waspish badinage and transformed supporting roles into star turns. This time around, Sinead Cusack (who need no longer be known only as Mrs. Jeremy Irons) makes Beatrice every inch the lady of hide-pendent mind. Derek Jacobi's Benedick begins abubble with adolescent spirits, sighing and whinnying like a high school boy who won't admit that he is in love with...
...witty lovers Benedick and Beatrice are delightfully played by Derek Jacobi (Claudius in PBS's 1977 series I, Claudius) and Sinead Cusack. Directed by Terry Hands, this Much Ado is helium powered...
...George Cusack ran out of his brick bungalow across the street from the plane's deadly path. "There was a wall of flame all across the street," he said. "I thought I was in hell." The flames were shooting 200 ft. into the gray sky. Gas tanks of burning cars erupted, adding to the din. "It was all rain and fire," said May Maggiore, a grandmother. "I ran up and down the street screaming...
...kennet or haven't I told you, every telling has a taling and that's the he and the she of it." That phrase might serve as an epigram for all taped literature. Caedmon presents Joyce, along with readers E.G. Marshall, Siobhan McKenna and Cyril Cusack in its James Joyce Soundbook, a boxed, four-cassette package ($29.95) with Pomes Penyeach and excerpts from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, among others. Other Soundbooks offer Dylan Thomas and J.R.R. Tolkien in resonant audio versions...