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...TRULY COMMANDING presence here, though, is Belle Linda Halperb. As Sally, Halpern makes her numbers--"Don't Tell Mama" and "Cabaret" the two show-stoppers of the evening. Her powerful, rich voice, enravishing and assured stage presence, and uncommon beauty, stand out so much in this production that Cliff's denigration of Sally's talent seems quite odd. For all her escapism and childishness, he should acknowledge her powers of performance. And Halpern sensitively draws forth the unsettled and quite neurotic aspects of Sally all throughout the show. While we cannot be made to admire Sally or pass over...
...Halpern and Mr. Johnson, which premiered on HBO Sunday and will be seen seven times through Sept. 13, presents Olivier as a cantankerous Jewish businessman inconsolable at the loss of Florence, his wife of 42 years. At the funeral, a prosperous-looking man in a chesterfield (Gleason) asks if he may drop a pink carnation in the grave. It seems that the stranger had met with Florence regularly but platonically during all those years. The remainder of the film is a conversation between the two in which their antipodal perceptions of the same woman-for Mr. Halpern...
...Queen, the Cheshire cat and several other figures, Alison Taylor stands out with a resounding, jazz-style voice, as does Belle-Linda Halpern's mezzo-soprano voice throughout her different personifications. Though Halpern and Taylor have the most refined and talented voices, the others--Ben Cobb, Linus Gelber, Maud Winchester and Susan Glassman--belt out their parts clearly and loudly...
...other actresses particularly stand out and while McNamara as April and Belle Linda Halpern as Hoanne could not portray more divergent characters, each conveys idiosyncrasies with infinite charm. As the blond ditsy April McNamara reveals her beautiful sopraho in the duet "Barcelona" with Robert. And dark haired dark eyed Halpen as the cynical drunken Joanne displays a stunning voice in two numbers- "The Little Things," which mocks the supposed bliss of marriage and the solo, "The Ladies Who Lunch," which evinces a hearty disgust with pretense...
Critics of the plea believe that the standard is inconsistent and impossible to apply fairly. If mental defects are exculpatory, asks Dr. Abraham Halpern, director of psychiatry at United Hospital in Port Chester, N.Y., why shouldn't heredity, poverty and cultural deprivations also be? Others, like University of Chicago Law Professor Norval Morris, contend that jurors cannot make much sense of the tortured language in the M'Naghten and Brawner rules. "Even the so-called experts don't understand them," says Morris. Instead of acquitting defendants with mental problems, some scholars would prefer to have a judge...