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Married. David Birney, 33, and Meredith Baxter, 26, stars of Bridget Loves Bernie, television's ill-fated rehash of Abie's Irish Rose; both for the second time; in Manhattan. Although on the screen Bridget was a Catholic and Bernie a Jew, the couple are both Protestants; they were wed in a traditional Presbyterian ceremony...
...GOOD PEOPLE of Andorra kill a Jew. The Jew is not really a Jew, but his parents have reasons to tell him he is, and the townspeople begin to need to call him one when their inner security is threatened by outside enemies...
Fortunately half of the drama's stress is on the individual--the Jew, Andri--and here the production shines. Andri thinks he's a Jew, and it flatters the people's image of themselves to tolerate him when he's young. He tries to emulate them. But when their obsession changes guise and the persecution begins, Andri can't decide which identity to embrace--to be like the others or be different from them. He's even taught to act like a "Jew," and he can't find his freedom either...
...facial features of amateur actors; group scenes require complex and flawless stage directions in this circular space; lighting is made difficult; technical effects more intrusive. Virtually all of the play's striking visual moments--as when the rapacious soldier lurches bare-chested and vain from the bedroom of the Jew's fiance--would have been as effective on a conventional stage...
...give me that smart-ass Jewish attitude, because I've been a smart-ass Jew for 16 years of my life." The police newspaper has called him "Bozo the Clown"; for this and other insults, he has filed a $200,000 libel suit...