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...stars, who helped turn Mel Brooks' The Producers into the first smash theater hit of the millennium, are one of show biz's top money teams. In this tale of mismatched roommates, Lane will play Oscar, the slobby sportswriter, while Broderick tackles the fussbudget Felix. There have been rumors that they may occasionally switch roles...
DIED. TONY RANDALL, 84, versatile, opera-loving actor who was a fixture of the American stage and screen for more than 50 years but is best remembered as the punctilious fussbudget Felix Unger in the 1970s TV sitcom The Odd Couple; in New York City. By the time he was cast in his defining role, Randall was already an accomplished performer, having appeared in the original Broadway production of Inherit the Wind and as a smart-aleck sidekick in three Rock Hudson?Doris Day films. He remained active in his 70s and 80s, founding the National Actors Theater...
...that exceptionally clever change I made? And, if they did, so what? I could always say that my stupid, sloppy researcher forgot to include quotation marks, so I thought I was only stealing from my researcher. Of course, the sentence I lifted isn't quite the original, so some fussbudget might say that I'd been trying to avoid the appearance of plagiarism. Mmmm. Call me Irresponsible...
...lost love is a self-destructive genius. Her new husband is a fussbudget academic. Caught between them, Annette Bening's tragic heroine suffers a kind of influenza of the soul--fevers and chills alternating while she tries to maintain her politesse in provincial society. This is risky work for a movie star, but Bening's understated tension is admirable, and so is Jon Robin Baitz's new adaptation, touching Ibsen's glum dramaturgy with rueful Chekovian absurdity. Daniel Sullivan's brisk production, running through mid-April at Los Angeles' Geffen Playhouse, is full of lively performances bobbing eccentrically along...
...workplace comedy reminiscent of Barney Miller or The Mary Tyler Moore Show. In contrast to sitcoms, which have years to develop nuances, the play instantly sketches the ensemble's mutual mockeries. There's the fussbudget (Lewis J. Stadlen), the hypochondriac (Ron Orbach), the braggart (J.K. . Simmons), the deferential immigrant (Mark Linn-Baker), the Hollywood smoothie (John Slattery), plus two underwritten women, one tough (Randy Graff), one amazingly dumb (Bitty Schram...