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...Simpson still had some surprise moves to spring even on his own team. The surrender deadline came and went; when Los Angeles police department Commander David Gascon finally appeared before reporters, he was in a quiet fury. O.J. had failed to surface, he announced, and was now a fugitive. D.A. Garcetti arrived about an hour later to warn anyone against helping Simpson escape. "If you assist him in any way," he said, "you are committing a felony...
...sword or groping for the mot juste. In his 1983 book The Europeans, the Italian journalist Luigi Barzini, a seasoned and mordant observer of the Continental scene, cites Edmond Rostand's fictional Cyrano as the quintessence of French character, at least as outsiders exaggerate it: the boastful, cocksure Gascon whose fellow provincials are defined in Rostand's play as "free fighters, free lovers, free spenders, defenders of old homes, old names and old splendors . . . bragging of crests , and pedigrees." Yet now it seems that the rooster, the national symbol, is crestfallen...
...what-is-he-doing-in-this-play department, Ted Dane suffers mightily as the hopelessly inadequate Christian. That a honey like Roxanne could ever fall for Dane's sniveling wimp of a Gascon seems harder to believe than that Cyrano could ever see beyond that nose of his. Of the supporting cast, Donal Logue as the rightous Captain Le Bret is appropriately stiff-backed, and nuns Jane Avrich and Chalon Emmons scamper and giggle most agreeably during the last scene...
...dish of the southwest is cassoulet, a concoction of meat and dried beans that is the subject of as many variations and arguments as bouillabaisse or chili. After tasting dozens of versions, the author found the ultimate cassoulet at the Hotel de France in Auch, prepared by the celebrated Gascon chef Andre Daguin. Made with fresh fava beans and confit of duck, it is a contrast in flavors and textures that struck her as nothing less than "a miracle." American cooks should be equally impressed...
These repetitions breed affectionate hilarity if you are a Feydeau addict. The present cast is stylish and exemplary, and Jean Gascon's direction wisely makes speed triumph over sanity. There's One in Every Marriage is a theatrical bonbon...