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Faux jewelry's popularity with the stars has helped make it a hot item among women of more modest means who seek the head-turning glamour of a big, glittering gem. U.S. costume-jewelry sales were an estimated $800 million last year, up at least 10% from 1984. When sales from the all-important Christmas rush are tallied, this year is expected to come out even better...
Just as ironic, but more pleasantly so, is that Salieri, that "Patron Saint of Mediocrities," has inspired such an ingenious and engrossing play. The final gem of irony, however, is merely a result of expert casting: Tolins, a sublime Salieri indeed, receives the standing ovation Salieri never deserved...
Texas Gemmologist Roy Whetstine discovered the egg-size violet-and-blue rock in a Tupperware bin at an annual gem-and-mineral bazaar in Tucson last February. The amateur who had found the stone wanted $15 for it but readily sold it to the Texan for $10. Said Whetstine: "I was used to handling rocks and saying 'Yeah, that's a keeper' or 'That's no good.' " This one was a keeper...
...little gem of a piece, a solid effort from writer-director Kaplan. Scenes are quick and to the point. Friends Neal and Brad (Will Provost and Matthew Schuerman) encounter Bevvy, the clinging woman (Karen Petrone); Alyssa, the Cold Pretentious Artist (Sarah Beck); and Lynn, the "mature" but power concerned puppeteer. All roles are performed soundly, with particular realism coming from a "golly-gee" Provost and the emotionally distant Beck. I'm not sure if Petrone's Bevvy is quite what was aimed for or not, but she does get a sense of "clingingness" across in any case. Schuerman impersonates...
...this is not the sort of gem Stachiewicz is talking about. "When they were doing work near his old place on Duncan Street," Stachiewicz says, "he would turn on the mike so you could hear the hammering and he'd say, 'This morning Mac Bell has been hammering over at his shop, and I asked him to stop and he wouldn't, and it's driving me crazy.' Everything else is being homogenized, sanitized, deodorized. Simon is none of the above, and it's beautiful...