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Long Day's Journey Into Night is one of O'Neill's greatest plays--intricate, jarring and painfully honest. The play does not delight or entertain, but rather distresses the audience with an intimate look at the self-destructive network of O'Neill's own family...
...Jeffrey Korn is lively and hysterically funny as Zerlina's rather slow-witted betrothed, Masetto Along with junior Dominic A. A. Randolph, who plays Giovanni's faithful yet knowing servant Leporella. Korn provides the comic relief for the melodramatic intricacy of the opera. Randolph's Leporella never fails to entertain the audience, whether he is describing his master's terrible ways or whether he is cavorting about the stage, helping his master escape from the other characters. Randolph's stage presence is superb and he becomes the show's most endearing character, as he provides most of the opera...
...Elles-borough last week concentrated on the evils of wealth, but at least one member of the congregation, Mark Thatcher, 30, may have been distracted. The son of Britain's Prime Minister was visiting Chequers, the P.M.'s country estate, so that Dad and Mum could entertain his new American girlfriend, Karen Fortson, 24. She is the daughter of Ben Fortson, a Fort Worth oil magnate, and murmurings from both families suggest that a match may be entirely suitable. For the Fortsons, a Thatcher might be the next best catch to British royalty. And with Mark...
...have happened in their house, they flee to the capital city and begin to arrange a sale of their gold mine. Eventually they return to the summer house with the pasty-faced, foreign prospective buyers. Despite the sight of their terrified children, they pretend nothing has gone wrong and entertain the foreigners. But soon the thistles go to seed. Some of the family members try to escape, and soon perish, but some survive by huddling close to the ground...
...Toni Rembe, in a home overlooking the bay. He frequently attends and contributes heavily to San Francisco's opera and ballet companies and the city's Museum of Modern Art. His private art collection includes works by the modernists Robert Motherwell and Hans Hofmann. Rock likes to entertain at dinner parties, which attract an eclectic mixture of guests such as Opera Impresario Kurt Herbert Adler and Rolling Stone magazine Editor and Publisher Jann Wenner. Rock suffered from polio as a child, but shows no ill effects from the disease. He exercises for an hour every morning when...