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...Naked Eye" opens with cinematic flair in the downtown loft of Alex Del Flavio (Neil Maffin), a Mapplethorpe-esque photographer with a penchant for flowers, crucifixes and dicks. Seems predictable enough--and still does when Nan Bemiss (Pamela Hart) prances in. The Chanel-clad wife of the aforementioned bigot and Senator Pete Bemiss (Jeremy Geidt) has a "teeny" favor to ask of the, at this point, naked artist. The favor, of course, is that he self-censor a few of his more raw shots for the upcoming gala opening sponsored by the Bemisses...
Though it's occasionally hard to listen to lines like "It's what you're not supposed to think about" (the penises of Alex del Flavio's art) and "How did gay people get to America?" (as flight attendants), both Maffin and Hart give strong renditions of what are essentially stereotyped parts. Strutting, proclaiming, writhing in what he calls his "flash bulb therapy," Maffin does a good imitation of an attention-starved, shock-happy artist slowly coming to terms with the hypocrisy of selling out. But by the play's end, Hart's consistently contrarian Nan Bemiss wins the audience...
...difficult it is to pass on painfully acquired wisdom. It is said, "Where illegality reigns by law, the rule of reason must withdraw." The current drive for assisted suicide can only be explained by our unwillingness to learn or by our inability to understand the wisdom of the past. HART C. BEZNER Waterloo, Ontario Via E-mail...
Media execs agree that whatever the candidates do to cash in, they had best do it soon. Old candidates have a limited shelf life. How limited? We'll know this summer when bookstores get Gary Hart's The Patriot: An Exhortation to Liberate America from the Barbarians. Free Press editorial director Adam Bellow, his publisher, says it's modeled on Machiavelli's The Prince: "He provides a world view and political advice to anyone running for office in the current media-saturated environment." That environment, plus Donna Rice, was the very thing that undid Hart's candidacy...
...SAYS BOB DOLE HAS GOT "NO ideas." And Pat Buchanan has got the "wrong" ones. But walking the path of hubris that led Gary Hart off a cliff in 1988, Lamar Alexander insists he alone has the "new ideas" a new millennium deserves. So goes the sound bite. But Alexander's signature proposals don't always live up to their billing. Many have been kicked around for years, dropped as unwise, shirk the tough calls or come with so few details that they raise more questions than they answer...