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Asked last week why Bill Clinton has done so much better than he among minority voters, PAUL TSONGAS gave a surprisingly blunt answer: "I don't like the composition of our staff." He'd just blasted Dennis Kanin, his campaign manager, he said, for not hiring enough women, blacks and Hispanics. Said the candidate: "I don't want any more white males." Tsongas was grateful for the true believers -- the college boys and eager young operatives -- when he was runmning on empty in New Hampshire, with no money and no political heavyweights eager to sign on. But he know that...
BORN YESTERDAY by Garson Kanin...
...Alas, those are just about the final occasions for enthusiasm in the labored, preachy and mostly unfunny revival of Born Yesterday that opened on Broadway this week. When the show debuted in 1946, it made stars of Paul Douglas and Judy Holliday and cemented the reputation of playwright Garson Kanin as a wry social commentator...
...biggest loser is Kanin. His script, considered an American classic, either has dated badly or was overrated to start. It is a political, moral and especially a rhetorical muddle; its most grandiloquent speeches sound like discarded first drafts for a lesser Frank Capra movie. At the end, a Senator gets away with taking a bribe and Brock apparently gets away with murder, all with the connivance of the supposed hero and heroine. That may echo how some spectators feel about the outcome of recent insider-trading cases, but Kanin seemingly intended a shout of triumph, not this cynical sigh...
...that moment the Cleveland company became students in what has been called the George Abbott University, an institution whose graduates include Gene Kelly, Shirley MacLaine, Kirk Douglas, Gene Tierney, Jose Ferrer, Paul Muni, Van Johnson, Shirley Booth, Eddie Albert, Nancy Walker, Garson Kanin, Richard Widmark, Arlene Francis, Hal Prince...