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...opened on Broadway last week. Both demonstrate that it is a timeless story of self-delusion. The Broadway version, directed by Arvin Brown, evokes an America struggling to believe in itself. At center stage are an old hand, Richard Kiley, as the machine-shop boss, and a stunning newcomer, Jamey Sheridan, as the son who has always sort of known about, but never allowed himself to acknowledge, his father's crime. They share an easy masculinity, a love of argument, a trust more primal than mutual understanding. Their collisions are brutal. At his best Miller has been an avenging fury...
...hear voices through my eyes" ever since her brother put ear drops in them. Am I Blue's Ashbe Williams is a wildly romantic teen-ager with a propensity for stringing Cheerios on a shoelace, then eating them. Pixrose Wilson, the ethereal urchin who attends The Wake of Jamey Foster, dreams of having a baby: half human, half sheep. Are they weird? Naaah, they are the most engaging bunch of eccentrics since the days of the young William Saroyan. Spend an evening with the Henley sorority and you will have the time of your life...
...acter she wrote as a sophomore at Southern Methodist University; it recently opened at Manhattan's Circle Repertory Company. The Miss Firecracker Contest, her second full-length play, has completed a successful run at Buffalo's Studio Arena Theater; and her latest, strongest play, The Wake of Jamey Foster, is charming theatergoers at the Hartford Stage Company. Crimes of the Heart will be filmed by Jonathan Demme (Melvin and Howard), and an original Henley screenplay, The Moon Watcher, is scheduled for production later this year. At 29, this soft-spoken sprite from Jackson has more hits percolating than...
...plays have a sense of place and character," says Ulu Grosbard, director of Jamey Foster, "a unity of vision and a sharp eye for the contradictions within human beings." Jon Jory, whose Actors Theater of Louisville first produced Crimes of the Heart, is pleased that "Beth writes people rather than plots. She's writing what she knows. She imbibed the Southern gothic sensibility with her mother's milk." Evelyn Purcell, who will direct The Moon Watcher, is a kindred spirit; her documentary film Rush, about student bodies at Ole Miss, is a cartographer's view of Henleyland...
Henley still lives in West Hollywood, in a rented house unrefurnished by success, with Actor Stephen Tobolowsky, who played a dog sweeper in Firecracker and a turkey jerker in Jamey Foster. Last year she herself appeared as a bag lady in a radical farce at Los Angeles' Odyssey Theater: "It keeps my childlike spirit alive to go out and do something really strange." When her schedule permits, she attends boxing matches at the Olympic Auditorium, goes to Dodger games or listens to jazz at the Parisian Room. And she still goes home to Jackson, though "it's different...