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George Bush is giving 1991 a bittersweet goodbye kiss. He's lost 40 points in his ratings and gained 10 times that many gray hairs. But he's got his feet up on the desk in an Oval Office flooded with December sunshine, and for 30 minutes he is remembering when he played the ultimate chess game -- Desert Storm -- and won brilliantly. The afterglow of that triumph has faded now, but not his granite conviction that what he did was right. Back a year, the tension was real and he talked more at night with Barbara and hugged his grandchildren...
MARVIN'S ROOM. The first generation of AIDS plays dealt with the disease head on and focused on a specifically gay male world. The new wave, like Prelude to a Kiss and this off-Broadway knockout by Scott McPherson, respond metaphorically, never mentioning gays or even the disease but instead looking at the universal experiences of illness and dying, family rage and reconciliation. Director David Petrarca has polished the work through stagings in Chicago and Hartford, and it shines -- especially in Laura Esterman's portrayal of a care-giving aunt and Mark Rosenthal's depiction of her turbulent teenage nephew...
Only Mabel (soprano Jenny Giering) responds favorably and, in a breath-taking display of polished vocal range, she flirts with Frederic by breaking into song every time he tries to kiss her. Christine van Kipnis' choreography displays the coquettish maidens' spying on Mabel and Frederic's romantic conversation with droll grace...
...unless Sullivan can reverse this trend, the Crimson can kiss any Ivy hopes good...
...visage is America's home-sweet-home version of Edvard Munch's The Scream, with the angst pasteurized. In the just-released My Girl, a story about a motherless, hypochondriac tomboy and her best friend Thomas J. (Culkin), he does the unspeakable for a preadolescent (has his first screen kiss) and the unthinkable for a budding megastar (dies well before the end). "It was easy," says Mack. "I just pretended I was sleeping." It could turn out to be the most talked-about movie death since a hunter shot Bambi's mother...