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...Jerry Finnegan's Sister. Brian has spenthis whole life wrestling with an unrequitedsomething for his best friend's sister, but everytime they meet, he puts his foot in his mouth. NowBeth is getting married and time is running out.Two actors portray Brian and Beth from age six tothe present in this comedy. Winthrop House JCR, 8p.m. $2 for general admission; Free for Winthropresidents...
...Finnegan's Week by Joseph Wambaugh (Morrow; 348 pages) is a caper story of a kind, if getting through the workweek without sinking into occupational depression, or into yet another doomed marriage, can be called a caper. Finbar Finnegan is a San Diego cop with three ex-wives and a receding hairline, but only in real life. He hates his job and wants to be an actor, and as this cheerfully silly tale commences, he is mugging into the bathroom mirror, preparing to audition for the part of a contract killer on a TV cop show...
...audition bombs, and Finnegan must go on chasing real-life bad guys, toxic-waste dumpers, into the wilds of Tijuana. A couple of beautiful women detectives assist him in this nonsense, whose seriousness may be judged by Finnegan's dire judgment that "the watershed event that signaled the collapse of American civilization was the colorization of The Maltese Falcon...
...Finnegan says the disapproves of predictive astrology but does believe "your personality, your inclinations, your instincts, how you work with people, how you relate to things" are all influenced by the form of the heavens at your birth...
...Finnegan responds differently, remaining loyal to her field...