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...along with the two unemployed concubines who are more or less tourguides for the show, that this is no ordinary spot. It's a sandswept, burning wasteland, oozing with mysterious "black goop." Everyone's concerned only to avoid the heat, and our luckless heroines, Alma Lovin (Brian Kenet) and Gwen Myway (David Nacht) can't even sell their experienced bodies. It's "Just deserts...In the land that God forgot/It's too darn...
...number of customers who buy flowers frequently has given rise to a new type of store. So-called stem or bucket shops let the buyer be the florist. Each fresh-cut variety is put in a vase, and customers are left to create their own arrangements. Florist Gwen Moore has opened two bucket shops called the Blossom Broker in suburban Denver. Says she: "People can walk right into the cooler and do their own thing...
...have-beens. So their transformation into rakehells is both joyous and poignant. It is delicious to watch Ameche, 77, Cronyn, 73, and Brimley, 50 (but he can pass for old), kicking up dust as the stars of a geezer's Porky's. But for the characters' wives and girlfriends (Gwen Verdon, Jessica Tandy, Maureen Stapleton), the spectacle is bittersweet. They realize that at any age, men must be boys, and women must be their sandbox playmates or their strict mothers. Some genders will just never grow...
...Gwen Krause Hoboken...
...opening scene of Top Girls, by Caryl Churchill (author of the long-running off-Broadway hit Cloud Nine), is the strangest of dinner parties; the hostess is alive, but all the guests are dead. Marlene (Gwen Taylor) is a smart, hard-nosed career woman who is celebrating her promotion to managing director of the Top Girls Employment Agency at a London restaurant called La Prima Donna. She has invited a few prima donnas, or "top girls," of past centuries to celebrate with...