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Wilde's wordiness can easily drag, but the cast and crew have done a magnificent job of saving the play from this pitfall. Their sharp, concise style is true to Wilde's genius of conveying "What oft was said but ne'er so well expressed...
...first glance, Chris Collet, clad in a t-shirt, blue jeans, and Topsiders, doesn't look the kind of person who'd play a battered child adopted by a drag queen in the Torch Song Trilogy or a teen who gets decapitated in the horror flick Sleepaway Camp...
...production in school," he says. "A friend of mine was doing commercials and she said to go for it." After some dozen spots for the Madison Avenue set, he landed a role in The Torch Song Trilogy. "I played a battered child who was gay and adopted by a drag queen." He says, holding back a slight smile...
With one poll showing Reagan winning as many as 49 states, congressional and local Democratic candidates are increasingly concerned that Mondale will drag them down with him. The only Massachusetts congressional candidate to invite Mondale to appear in the state so far was a Republican, Senate Candidate Raymond Shamie, who figured perversely that a visit by the top of the Democratic ticket would hurt his Democratic opponent. In Tennessee, Republican Senate Candidate Victor Ashe offered to donate $5 to the favorite charity of his Democratic opponent, Congressman Albert Gore, if Gore just mentioned Mondale's name...
...lack of originality. No longer of any use to his Soviet hosts and subsisting on vodka and memories, the aging Kimberly is visited by his KGB friend who hands him that day's issue of Pravda with an article announcing Kimberly's death. Half a dozen soldiers then drag him away to a hidden hospital where he receives a remarkable facelift that leaves him looking twenty years younger and dectdedly Russian...