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Most arresting of all is the hero, Arnold Beckoff, played by the author. Arnold's occupation is drag queen; he sings torch songs at a Manhattan gay bar called the International Stud. As the first play opens, he is sitting in costume in his dressing room. He delivers some straight talk about his life, his loves and his lovers, and very quickly, without seeming to try, seduces the audience. Arnold is one of those characters who demand-and receive-an audience's affection. He is tough, funny and, in his own upside-down way, almost clairvoyant...
With all of its flaws, however, Torch Song Trilogy, is a remarkable achievement. All the actors seem right, and several are exceptional, but the evening, in acting as well as writing, clearly belongs to Fierstein, 27. The son of a Brooklyn handkerchief maker, he began working as a drag queen in East Village clubs at 16 before turning to playwriting at 19. Onstage, his voice derives from Tallulah Bankhead, and his drag-queen clothes would look good on Carmen Miranda. In every other way he is unique. Like the very best actors, he does not play a part, he inhabits...
Jazz enthusiasts and drag fans alike took to the streets yesterday to join in the Hasty Pudding Club's 1982 Woman of the Year parade honoring singer Ella Fitzgerald...
...only witness to the four's exit from the party changed his description between the time he was first interviewed by the state police and the time he actually testified. At the trial. Dr. Michael Shesky denied having told the police that he saw two of the doctors drag DiPietro from the apartment, adding that he only heard scuffing in the hall which he presumed to be horseplay...
There is indisputably such a thing as the "Harvard game" in squash. Jack Barnaby instituted it and molded it into his legacy. Dave Fish, Barnaby's disciple, adopted it and refined it. Collegiate squash by nature has evolved into a banging, physical one. Games drag to become long, tough, and grinding. Coaches tell their players to go out and hit the ball 100 times, beat it until the opponent dies...