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Barry Manilow, recently discharged from the Red Line, will be in concert with Lady Flash at 8 p.m. at the Music Hall the same night. If you time it right, you can go to all three, and be back in your pitiful Mather House cubicle in time to retch...
...most famous people, places, music and night spots of Harlem from 1920 through 1940. The Broadway production opened in March at a New York repertory theater, and supplied many cast members for the national company that is doing the Boston production. Many of these actors, including Mabel Lee, Jay Flash Riley, and Vernon Washington are, in turn, recreating roles they originally perfected during the 1930s and 1940s...
...singing in Bubbling Brown Sugar is also consistently outstanding. Backed by an excellent Duke Ellington-type big band, Ursula Kairson turns in an electric version of "God Bless the Child," while Jay Flash Riley--with the help of some wildly funny ad-libbing--immortalizes an unexpected aspect of religious revivalist meetings. With the exception of the songs specifically composed for Bubbling Brown Sugar, the caliber of music is the highest, and includes many Fats Waller and Duke Ellington standards...
Vietnam itself is sketched sparingly, a vivid and ugly flash of memory, yet it dominates all of Kovic's thoughts and emotions, like the residual traces of a nightmare. It is the point of reference around which all else in the book revolves. His life does not seem so much to progress linearly, as centrifugally, with the Vietnam experience in the center, prefigured by his patriotic upbringing and predestining his whole future...
...doubt: Marathon Man is the year's most cunning entertainment, a thriller full of spills and shootings, double-dealings and triple betrayals. It is lavishly mounted and loaded with flash. The movie also offers Dustin Hoffman, giving one of his best performances, up against Laurence Olivier, who is in fine form playing an archvillain. Watching Marathon Man is a little like getting crowned by a chain-mail fist...