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...switch--a sex change, no less--here. Judi Dench, the distinguished English stage actress, is now running Bond. She has a butch hairdo, a brusque Thatcherite manner and a license to kill with unkindness. She calls Bond a "sexist, misogynistic dinosaur" right to his face. There's a chic in her cheek the rest of the movie direly misses...
...McSweeney said last night that he plans to appeal Judge Kass' decision today to the Supreme Judi- cial Court (SJC), the state's highest court...
...Judi H. Pettit, who works part-time for van derMerwe, says it was "a riot' that people accusedvan der Merwe of sexual harassment...
...more dynamic and appealing are Judi Mavon as Rosa Bud and Adam Feldman as John Jasper. Mavon has transformed Rosa Bud from a rather dumb ingenue part as the object of everyone's affections and turned her into an animated, intelligent woman. Mavon is so consistently funny and engaging that her occasional missed high note (her singing is otherwise quite good) is more than forgivable. By the beginning of the second act she has established her character so well that her line to Jasper, "you are a bad bad bad man," actually seems plausible...
...London, her range is astonishing, from the hoydenish Rosalind in As You Like It to the nihilistic Hedda Gabler, from the sexually awakening adolescent of Troilus and Cressida to the avenging victim of Death and the Maiden. She approximates the emotional clarity of Vanessa Redgrave, the assertive power of Judi Dench and the braying, spiteful fun of Maggie Smith -- and adds an androgynous beauty suited equally to Shakespeare's pants parts and to the contemporary feminist dialectics of the vehicle she has chosen for her U.S. stage debut, Howard Barker's Scenes from an Execution...