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...Margaret Gibson's version of Hesione Hushabye, Shotover's daughter, would be perfectly charming if the viewer only had to bear her company for 15 minutes or so. She makes a delightful first impression, with her endless charm and sinuous steps. Unfortunately, Gibson's method of delivering Hesione's absurd pieces of babytalk--such as "prettikins" and "daddyest"--is horribly artificial, and her languorous speech and movements seem too derivative of Morticia Addams...
...Nashville dynamite from his own pen and those of top country songsmiths Don Schlitz and Jamie O'Hara. The best tunes, including Baby Don't You Know and I Won't, take you two-stepping back to 1957 -- rockabilly prime time -- when Marty Robbins, the Everly Brothers and Don Gibson were teaching city kids how country sounds: like a murmur from the echo chamber of a broken heart...
...really be blamed on the company, who turn in performances ranging from serviceable to superb. The sheer number of minor characters and the indistinguishability of their names does not prevent certain actors from achieving distinction: particularly wonderful were Candy Buckley as the secretary Polixena Vasilievna Toropetskaya, Margaret Gibson as the cat-hurling actress Lyudmila Silvestrovna Priakina and Jeremy Geidt as Romanus, the conductor at the Independent Theatre. Derek Smith is not a very dynamic Maksudov; although he expresses his suicidal desperation nicely, his creative anxieties and joys are only sketchily delineated. Alvin Epstein as Ivan Vasilyevich, the director...
...which means "April 29" in Korean, showcases interviews with Korean shopkeepers affected by the riots of last spring. The film's producer, Dai sil Kim-Gibson, will field audience questions after the December 4 showing...
Haden has a distinctive style, lyric and elemental in equal proportions, that is ideally suited to this kind of experimental time tripping. "He has a big, warm, rich tone, and his approach is very traditional," says Rob Gibson, director of Jazz at Lincoln Center, for which one of Haden's groups, the Liberation Music Orchestra, will perform in 1993. "It's almost country sounding, but it's really swinging...