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...must be nice to have that kind of I.Q.," Starr says wistfully. "Doing well academically...but not having to spend all that terribly much time doing it. You know the tortoise and the hare? I'm the tortoise, moving along slowly, and hopefully getting across the finish line without getting run over." Then the independent counsel chuckles, gives one of his mild, impenetrable smiles and adds a few quiet words that make it clear this tortoise-and-hare business involves more than study habits. "It is dangerous crossing the road...
...smitten London critic described Nicole Kidman's performance in The Blue Room as "pure theatrical Viagra," but the medication Broadway has needed most in recent weeks is Valium. As David Hare's new play, in which both Kidman and co-star Iain Glen appear briefly in the nude, prepared to transfer from London to New York City, trend-conscious theatergoers seemed headed for a nervous breakdown: the clamor for tickets exceeded anything in recent Broadway memory...
...morning after. The Blue Room is Hare's adaptation of La Ronde, Arthur Schnitzler's once scandalous play in which 10 characters engage in a daisy chain of sexual encounters. Hare updates the play in predictable ways--the soldier becomes a taxi driver; the "young miss" a miniskirted model--and has all the parts played by the two stars. The casting gimmick, along with the chicly impersonal production (a semiabstract set framed in neon), makes the vignettes seem more facile and obvious: Schnitzler's acid portrayal of sex as the great leveler on a climb up the social ladder...
...pair seem to have reasonable ideas about what is wrong with the current council--a lack of attention to issues such as Ad Board reform, ethnic studies and Faculty diversity--yet are less convincing when it comes to solutions. Still, students can take advantage of the council's hare proportional system of voting and rank Burton and Resnick second...
Lots of his sort have been interloping lately. Jennifer Jason Leigh is playing Sally Bowles in the acclaimed Broadway revival of Cabaret. Nicole Kidman is about to take the town by storm in David Hare's The Blue Room. Christian Slater, Toni Braxton and Holly Hunter are among the other film and recording stars currently giving Broadway a whirl...