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...member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, Democrat Lipinski used to reel in money for projects like the Southwest Rapid Transit Line and O'Hare Airport renovations or push through passenger taxes at airports, another gift to his district. But Republican control of the House has made things more complicated for the six-term Democrat, and voters may be asking "What have you done for me lately, Bill...
...always uncomfortable to be the hare in the fable. But it's the fate of DAVID CARUSO, who shot to such prominence in the first season of NYPD Blue that he abruptly left for the movies, breaking his contract and leaving few friends. Two bad films later, Caruso wants to return to TV to play, according to Variety, a crusading attorney. But in his rush to leave TV, he signed a deal with ABC and ex-boss Steven Bochco, promising not to return until 1998. After some negotiation, it appears they won't stand in his way. Meanwhile, Dennis Franz...
...Alan Ayckbourn's most provocative comedies (A Chorus of Disapproval, Man of the Moment), Gambon is known here mainly as the star of Dennis Potter's admired TV mini-series, The Singing Detective. Now he's making his long-overdue U.S. stage debut, in a Broadway production of David Hare's Skylight. All the ingredients are there for stage magic; unfortunately, too many of the wires and trapdoors are clearly visible...
...Hare's plays usually teem with ideas and political passion. He took on the British justice system in Murmuring Judges, postwar disillusion in Plenty, the church in Racing Demon. Skylight is a more modest piece, essentially a two-character drama about a wealthy restaurateur who arrives at the bleak little flat of his former mistress and tries to rekindle their affair. First we learn, rather tediously, the background of their relationship: they met when she went to work at one of his restaurants; she left him three years ago; his wife has since died of cancer. Then, after some getting...
Director Richard Eyre adds a couple of jarring physical outbursts (she angrily flings a load of silverware; a bit later he scatters a pile of books), but Hare hasn't pulled his weight. Glad to have you, Mr. Gambon; bring an Ayckbourn play the next time you're in town...