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...Bledsoe, but also does not aim at a strong performance. At the most serious moments, her voice tremors as if she were going to laugh. She also overdoes the sentimentality of the part, falling into Stanley's arms in a way more appropriate to a soap opera than to high-class drama...
...family of a man killed at the wheel of his truck threatens to sue the restaurant for serving him too many drinks; a white lawyer travels into the black ghetto to discover that the victim actually committed suicide. In another show, Frank (Tim Reid) is courted by a high-class black men's club, which practices its own form of race discrimination. Prospective members are traditionally given a "paper bag" test: only those with skin lighter than the bag are asked to join. The messages are soft-pedaled, however, in favor of funky atmosphere, fragments of offhand humor and characters...
Fortunately for Feinstein (sounds like Einstein), a lot of other people want to hear those old show tunes too. In the past year, since he opened at Manhattan's venerable Algonquin Hotel, he has become the brightest, newest star on the high-class cabaret circuit. He made a cameo appearance in February on NBC's The Two Mrs. Grenvilles -- as a nightclub singer of the '40s -- and he has performed at the White House; the current tenant is a fan. "Hey, Nancy," Ronald Reagan said when he first heard Feinstein at a Palm Springs party, "you've got to hear...
...River Oaks Garden Club's annual pink-elephant sale probably seems like a suitably high-class recipient. A new-money customer, ordering three pairs of $1,530 slacks, giggled as she described taking one of her old Galanos dresses off to the sale. "One of the girls sent in her Rose Festival dress. She had kept it, and her family kept it, for 30 years. We were thrilled. We advertised it, and guess who bought it? A--you know--a 'man.' She'd be just sick if she knew it was going out to the transvestite bars." It probably looks...
...expected a change," says Will Adams. "It shows you how naive people are." Whenever the new owner appeared at the marina, fresh rumors broke out: their cozy anchorage would be replaced by a high-class resort with . tennis courts, gambling and gourmet restaurants. Some things were certain. Theurer had a custom sportfishing boat docked in the marina named the A/C D/C. He is 58. One of the few things he would tell a reporter was that he was raised in New York's Hell's Kitchen and never went past the seventh grade. He has a collection of gold chains...