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...dare speak to her and dismissed his screen heroism as fakery until he thrillingly discovered that it, like all art, came from deep within. The barren Broadway musical of MY FAVORITE YEAR, which opened last week, turns O'Toole's holy hellion into a soulless self-pitier (a deft if charmless Tim Curry) and wrongly presumes that the film's appeal was its setting amid a '50s TV variety show -- a format joylessly re-created. For the movie's fans, this is a sad waste; for others, a crashing bore...
...with other victims, not knowing who has taken you or for how long or, above all, why. But Irish writer Frank McGuinness finds a trove of snarky pub wit and schoolboy antics in SOMEONE WHO'LL WATCH OVER ME, which last week moved from London to Broadway with its deft West End cast -- Alec McCowen as a prissy English teacher, Stephen Rea as a dissolute Irish journalist and James McDaniel as a tightly wound American doctor. The roles recall the contrived ethnic jumble of old war movies. McDaniel, the most touchingly real, most underscores this falsity...
These tracks, from the days of the previous guitarist Hillel Slovak and drummer Irons, are harder and more guitar-oriented than other Peppers work. The best of these songs is "Behind the Sun," displaying lead singer Anthony Kiedis's deft use of melody rather than solely...
...sparing on the blitz: W & M quarterback Shawn Knight is a skilled scrambler and a deft passer. Harvard should concert its efforts on defending the Tribe's potentially potent aerial attack...
...recently won a tough but deft battle against the drivers' and mailers' unions, which means that a new color-printing and distribution plant in New Jersey can begin operating. Those readers who managed to live through the Styles section will go into shock in the spring of 1993 when several of the Sunday sections go to color...