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Written by Lillian Hellman...
...Lillian Hellman's Toys in the Attic has all of these. Yet the point of this Tennessee Williams-style southern potboiler is not to shock, but to tell a story of the destructive power of greed, anger, and jealousy--and of the equally destructive power of naivete, truth and love...
...Hellman's script, Henry is a mulatto man, not a white woman, but Director Sarah Gross says She decided that the interracial sex that might have shocked Toys' original audiences 30 years ago would not shock modern audiences as much as lesbianism would...
...Long on Lonely Street, a zesty, poignant and fiercely funny comedy. Far more shocking revelations have already emerged along the way, on matters ranging from race to motherhood to incest. Playwright Sandra Deer has created a clan of faded gentry who mingle the greed of the family in Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes with the lubricious dementia of Beth Henley's Crimes of the Heart. Yet Deer has a kinder heart toward her characters than either author. The result, while likely to strike some playgoers as scandalous, is the most impressive playwriting debut of the New York season...
...Lillian Hellman once wrote, in an attempt to explain Richard Nixon's reemergence in 1968, that Americans don't like to remember too much, that the images of today obscure the truths of the past. Some commentators insist that Mondale's surge comes too late, that it follows too disjointed a campaign; and that the memory of the Reagan of September will overwhelm those of Mr. October. But for the past week, each of the evening newscasts has begun with pictures of Mondale as a self-assured, confident man acting like a winner and, the reporters tell us, with some...