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...Women Beware Women opens with the recent nuptials of Leantio (Fred Hood '02) and his new bride Bianca (Annalise Nelson '02). Unfortunately, in the third week of their marriage, Bianca is seen by the lascivious Duke of Florence (Dan Hughes '01), who then orchestrates a meeting and rapes her. This spirals into an extremely complicated plot mired in incest, murder...
...Sparkling performances are given by James Mangwi '00 as the disapproving, moralizing brother of the Duke, and Stian Westlake (GSAS) as Hippolito, who delivers his lines with suitably lovelorn anguish (and has the crazy hair to match his moods). Hood's performance as Leantio is also quite compelling, and does well in engendering the audience's sympathy, as does the idiotic ward, Bill Maskiell '02, who induces a different kind of sympathy altogether...
...game. After a slow start, the Homies & Popz rally. "That's what I'm talking about!" Hayes cheers after a good play. "Sport of kings! Thinking man's game!" Steve Castaneda, 18, bowls four wickets--"He practices in his backyard with lemons," Haber says--as the chaps from the 'hood sink the Mayflower, 121-84. And the chorus of their celebratory rap goes like this...
...dozen college chums reune to reminisce, bicker and bond. This agitated comedy (produced by Lee's cousin Spike) could be called The Big Chillin' if it had a smidge of the 1983 film's wit and charm. It's nice to see an African-American story set outside the 'hood, and we'll keep calling hunky Taye Diggs a star of the future until he's 60. But he'll have to be in movies better than The Best...
...guard was not injured but the rocks broke the passenger-side front window of his Ford Escort and dented the hood, according to the release...