Word: joes
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...BURBS Directed by Joe Dante...
...enthusiastically trashing their most genteel patrons? Bob Balaban's recent comedy Parents, a kind of robin's-egg Blue Velvet, limned a '50s family, as placid and telegenic as the Andersons on Father Knows Best, that devours human flesh. Now Middle America gets a return visit from Joe Dante, guerrilla terrorist in Spielbergian suburbia. His Gremlins was a comic nightmare in which midget monsters invade a wonderful-life town and act up like the Hell's Angels in a malt shop. In The 'Burbs, the gremlins are the townspeople themselves, driven to posse paranoia by their suspicions about people whose...
...category, Brown's Joe Bury upended Scott Beck, 7-3, to give the Bruins a three-point decision...
...Joe Mocco of Brown edged out David George, 1-0, by scoring an escape early in the third period...
...public seems ready to let bygones be bygones. Subscriptions are back up from a low of 11,700 to nearly 18,000, and ticket sales provide almost 75% of the $8.1 million annual budget. Unfortunately, what appears onstage is no guarantee of continued enthusiasm. August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone, winner of the 1988 New York Drama Critics Circle Award for best play, was daringly reconceived by director Claude Purdy rather than simply copied from the Broadway production. In almost every case, however, the changes dissipated the power of Wilson's poetic drama of rootlessness and religious...