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...Strippers with hearts of gold, like Urbana Sprawl, who compares her profession to wing walking: "You're fine, long as you don't look down." And Monique Jr., who assures a nervous dancer, "It's a slumber party, hon. That's how come we're in our nighties...
...bare-bones plot of Strip Tease revolves around FBI secretary turned exotic dancer Erin Grant, who is working at the Eager Beaver to pay her legal fees to win back custody of her daughter. Erin's ex-husband Darrell is a lowlife so inept that he boosts wheelchairs, not cars, for a living. Congressman Dilbeck (the poor man's Wilbur Mills) becomes as obsessed with Erin as the sugar lobby is with keeping this drunken buffoon of a subcommittee chairman in office. Throw in a few dead bodies, and Hiaasen's morality play is off and running like a frisky...
...smothering Jewish mother is perhaps the strongest presence in this production. Tasha Blumberg, played strongly by Jessica Fortunate, makes memorable appearances clad in black tights, a tie-dyed lectard and a gold lame top. She's a dancer who just wants her daughter, Janie Blumberg, played by Emily Gardner, to be happy. Janie's happiness is the challenge that the plot of the play follows. She falls in love with a Jewish doctor who is heir to his family's restaurant fortune, but she must eventually choose between staying with him or following her freelance writing career where it leads...
...person Anna Deavere Smith is a tall, slender, gorgeous black woman with an aristocrat's features, a dancer's grace and a Stanford drama professor's vocabulary. Onstage she is a disabled old Korean man, a white male Hollywood talent agent, a Panamanian immigrant mother, a teenage black gang member, a macho Mexican sculptor and 21 other people whose lives were forever changed by the 1992 Los Angeles riots. With a minimum of costumes and props she can make herself tall, short, pudgy, burly. If the person she is enacting speaks Spanish or Korean, so does she. This kind...
...series that aim to educate often benefit by having a knowledgeable guide at the controls -- witness wine writer Hugh Johnson, who was host of Vintage, or art critic Robert Hughes, cicerone of The Shock of the New. The narrator of Dancing is Raoul Trujillo, a marginally telegenic modern dancer- choreographer who reads his lines with unconvincing passion. Under a more pungent guide, Dancing could have skipped a lot of repetitive propaganda. By series' end, viewers will have heard the word culture so often that some may be tempted, like Hermann Goring, to reach for their revolvers...