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...consumate animal player; he is more cunning than a grey fox, swifter than a spring buck, and with his nautilus training, stronger than a wooly mammoth," Jack says...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Life as the Corsican Brothers | 5/23/1988 | See Source »

...Picnic's comic elements, though not as well as Marjorie Ingall, who plays the middle-aged next door neighbor. In a play where the word "costume" means jeans or a flower-patterned dress, it should not be surprising that the audience can almost see the powder falling from her grey hair. Though after working with this cast, one might expect her hair to fall...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: Out to Lunch | 4/15/1988 | See Source »

...covering his or her face and chest with various lewd witticisms in sunblock. Party games like this coupled with the requisite amount of beer-guzzling and sun-worshipping, and you will have a dream vacation which will only cost your self respect, $300, and five-eighths of your functional grey matter...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Doctoroff, | Title: A Harvard Guide to Hedonism | 3/23/1988 | See Source »

...naive bohemian and turns her into a fascinating and realistic person, the perfect complement to the Lear-ish Susan. Fass captures Alice's precarious perch on the line between comedy and cynicism. The audience simultaneously shudders and laughs as she whips sarcasms and insults at her hapless student Dorcas Grey (Sarah Stevenson). Fass knows how to develop a character, and she has the timing and the bearing of a classic comedian, the ideal safety valve in a complex tragedy...

Author: By Sean C. Griffin, | Title: More than Enough | 3/11/1988 | See Source »

WHEN he walks in the door, I recognize him at once. A man of striking appearance, with grey hair and his trademark beard, the Swedish actor explains in nearly flawless English that the only language he could speak is Swedish. He says he took up acting because he is a coward, just as he writes novels and screenplays out of necessity, though he incidentally has the "possibility to publish...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: Swede Memories | 3/4/1988 | See Source »

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