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Unfortunately, his insistence on repetition beats his jokes to death. The running gag of the show is the neurotic cockney maid Edith, who is unable to perform her duties at a normal pace. To clear the breakfast trays she needs a running start, and Ruth spends the duration of the play trying to slow her down. The triviality of this detail is magnified enormously as it is repeated, endlessly. Also distracting is the number of times Charles visits the liquor cabinet and meticulously makes dry martinis--stirred, not shaken. The pace of the plot is not quick enough to keep...

Author: By Judy P. Tsai and Bonnie Tsui, S | Title: The Dead Arise and Wit Ensues | 2/27/1997 | See Source »

...hotel in Scottsdale, Arizona. Charles H. Keating Jr., his head held high, his gangly 6 ft. 5 in. frame clad in rolled-up blue jeans and a Windbreaker, strides in, startling a middle-aged couple at lunch. The man, still in golf togs, drops a steak knife and says, "Edith, I can't believe he's out of prison; it's the guy who built this hotel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHARLIE'S AN ANGEL? | 2/3/1997 | See Source »

...DIED. EDITH HAISMAN, 100, oldest Titanic survivor; in Southampton, England. In 1912, at age 15, she sailed with her parents on the doomed vessel, and afterward spent a lifetime recalling the night when she and her mother watched from a distant lifeboat as the liner sank, with her father aboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Feb. 3, 1997 | 2/3/1997 | See Source »

...time when some of cinema's most respected actors--Robert De Niro, Al Pacino--have developed an unfortunate taste for self-parody, Neeson has made his mark in Hollywood as a paragon of restrained intensity. In Ethan Frome, the 1993 movie version of Edith Wharton's novel, Neeson manages to convey a lifetime of thwarted longing in one gaze. In a Schindler scene that has Neeson's debonair businessman surveying the destruction of the Cracow ghetto, we see in the actor's perplexed expression something quite remarkable: a man's humanity slowly surfacing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: A STAR IS FINALLY BORN | 10/14/1996 | See Source »

...more than a vocal Ouija board. On the very first track she stretches beyond jazz with a patient, deeply pleasing rendition of Walkin' After Midnight, a song made famous by country star Patsy Cline. And in a nod to her French roots, Peyroux delivers a vibrant version of Edith Piaf's La Vie en Rose. Dreamland features an impressive cast of supporting players. Pianist Chestnut provides restrained invention on Reckless Blues, guitarist Vernon Reid (formerly of the rock band Living Colour) enlivens Muddy Water, and up-and-coming jazz stars Marcus Printup (trumpet) and James Carter (saxophone) provide lift...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: A HOLIDAY ALL HER OWN | 10/14/1996 | See Source »

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