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Within his plays, Williams' pursuit of the poetic extends beyond the dialogue. Is there another American playwright whose stage directions are so revealing, so entertaining, so rich? Suddenly Last Summer calls for a garden that is "more like a tropical jungle, or forest, in the prehistoric age of giant fern...
Full of murder, lust, adultery, suicide, and archaeologists, Lanford Wilson's "The Mound Builders" is bound to be shocking and entertaining. But despite the promise the play seems to hold, the production in the Loeb Ex last weekend took a while to realize its full potential. But when it did...
All in all, the show displayed some very talented acting in a disturbing but entertaining nonetheless-talk of friendship, marriage, and betrayal of both. It took a while for the show to get past the doldrums, but the spine-chilling ending made it all worthwhile.
DIED. LINDA GOODMAN, 70, writer; from diabetes; in Colorado Springs. Entertaining prose and easy-on-the-intellect pop psychology made Goodman's 1968 Sun Signs the first astrology book to scale the New York Times best-seller list, creating the mass market for mysticism that haunts us still.
Some talkmeisters respond with defiance. "Most of what we do on the show is funny," says Jerry Springer, who attended a talk-show summit in New York City last weekend. "The guests are entertaining. Our show is a silly show. Get a life!" But Gordon Elliott concedes, "I don't...