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...Regent Beverly Wilshire, had more than financial statements on their minds. Police representatives and other critics blasted the company for releasing black rapper Ice-T's Body Count album and its Cop Killer cut, which contains such lines as "Die Pig, Die!" During the five- hour session, actor Charlton Heston denounced Time Warner for, among other things, shipping the compact discs to radio stations in miniature body bags. (A company spokesman said the bags were in keeping with the theme of the album, which includes cuts warning about the dangers of drug use and gang warfare...
...small enough so he doesn't wear out his welcome), some crooked arms dealers and a sexy mystery woman (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) all cherchez le loot. Director Roger Donaldson puts a curiously cheerful spin on paranoia, and Willem Dafoe, as a deputy sheriff, provides a knowing parody of Charlton Heston doing jut-jawed heroics...
...Wilbur Theater will run the show for three weeks, but change the actors each week--from February 11-16 Lauren Bacall and Richard Kiley, from February 18-23 Jane Curtin and Edward Herrmann, and from February 25-March 1 Charlton Heston and Alexis Smith...
Although I have not seen Curtin and Herrmann or Heston and Smith (for obvious reasons), it seems hard to imagine either pair lousing up Gurney's script. Each of the four actors boasts extensive stage experience, and the roles of Andy and Melissa should pose no problem for them. In fact, it seemed that Kiley and Bacall enjoyed their roles, and they made the portrayal of Andy and Melissa seem effortless...
...chiseled on benches and, in four languages (not always perfectly translated), on the marble plaques with which the pavilion floor is newly paved. Electronics mavens set them moving across giant LED screens on the walls. Not since Cecil B. DeMille caused lightning to peck the Ten Commandments onto Charlton Heston's tablets had American culture spent so much on lettering. All this to tell the world it should not overeat. Tipicamente americano, one might think...