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...thriller that opened on Broadway last week, actor Stacy Keach achieves something akin to T.R.'s dream. Without spoiling the "surprises" in a lumpishly predictable plot, one can reveal that Keach does not disappear when the reclusive billionaire he plays is shot and dumped into one of Harry Houdini's escape boxes before the first-act curtain. Keach acts with brio and glee, but as ever with author Rupert Holmes (The Mystery of Edwin Drood), the characters lack inner life. As the set suggests, they are pawns on a chessboard -- with no grand master in sight...
...even if the spymaster's "principles" prevent him from making a deal, he also commands a trove of damaging information about the private lives of many German politicians and + public figures. Justice officials promise that they will prosecute Wolf without reservation. But no one is yet counting out the Houdini of European espionage...
...smoking crack cocaine, a misdemeanor charge that could result in a one-year jail term and a $100,000 fine. It might also spell the end of Barry's political career. Said political analyst Mark Plotkin: "If Barry can recover from this episode, he really is a political Houdini...
...enforcement is lax here, folks. More lax than Don Knotts was on The Andy Griffith Show. So if you want to sample the native wares, go right ahead. You can probably get away with it. But if you do manage to get caught--a feat that Harry Houdini might find difficult--you will have a more miserable life than the guy who guest-hosts The Pat Sajak Show...
...Moon and Sixpence is still the "real" Gauguin -- a stockbroker and Sunday painter who cracks out of the bourgeois egg, dumps his wife, family and career and hightails it to Tahiti to "find himself" among the breasts and breadfruit. He is part brute and part escape artist, the Houdini of the avant-garde...