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...lead the life they envisioned -- are all part of almost any gay adult's personal legacy. If not always richly detailed in the writing, the moments are staged by Marshall Mason with unusual power. As the younger Ned, John Cameron Mitchell is touching but seemingly too sweet and girlish to have ripened into the tough, caustic adult Ned. But perhaps this is Kramer's deepest point -- that the corrosive gap between boy and man was wrought by the unloving world around him. More than a play about AIDS and death, The Destiny of Me is a play about homosexuality...
...Stillwater, Minn., & replete with neat lawns and American flags. Beattie (that's Beet-y) sits in the sun in a cafe along the St. Croix River with tall pines casting a shadow on the water and her 42-ft. houseboat, Nightsong, floating placidly down the way. In her calm, girlish voice, she orders decaffeinated coffee before a light lunch ("I let go of caffeine this year"). Beattie leads a pure, "land-o'-lakes" life and has a sense of, well, serenity. This wasn't always so. The sleeves of her soft blouse meet the bean-size indentations on her arms...
Even when the pace slows, Jenny Gibbs does a graceful job of playing Alice; her performance is full of energy and her girlish gestures are appropriate. If her accent is uneven, it is only out of consistency with the work--Alice admits in the first act that she is a native of both Oxford and Hackensack, which cannot help but to confuse Gibbs' speech pattern...
...removed." The result is that outsiders can misinterpret her manner and mistakenly belittle her talent. Playwright Terrence McNally complains that "what people often miss about Wendy is the thoughtful, passionate, mature womanly side of her. She is far more interesting as a mature artist than as this giggling, girlish, daughter-person that people want to take care...
...index of the athletic pharmacopoeia is long and gets longer. Rare and expensive human-growth hormone can, some say, turn children into massive competitive machines and aid muscle growth in adults. Stories circulate about puberty suppressants that allow gymnasts to keep their finely balanced girlish bodies. But no drugs pose as much of a threat to the fairness and legitimacy of athletic competition as anabolic steroids do. And as the Johnson scandal shows, nothing has so obscured the efforts of honest athletes or has contributed as much shame to the Games...