Word: lane
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...want to kick back; it wants to kick butt. The R-500 ($56,275; the R-350, with a smaller engine, starts at $48,775) features a five-L, 302-h.p. power plant that, while not sports-car responsive when you stick the accelerator, sucks up the passing lane with the kind of grace and power that makes you smirk as you blow past lesser machines. The suspension, on the other hand, leaves nothing to be desired. I had every intention of braking or downshifting (the transmission is one of those silly, mutable automatics) as we approached a 40-m.p.h...
...Sunday night backstage at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre on Broadway. Nathan Lane is sprawled on a couch in his tiny sitting room. His face is flushed. He looks exhausted. And no wonder: two days from now, he and Matthew Broderick are set to start previews of Neil Simon's The Odd Couple, the play's first revival in 40 years. Broderick and Lane, whose singularly fizzy chemistry made the musical The Producers a colossal hit in 2001, have been rehearsing nonstop for the past three weeks. Lane will play the slovenly Oscar Madison, Broderick the famously fastidious Felix Unger...
...Lane isn't just exhausted. Last night, in the grand old tradition of pre-opening theatrical disasters, he accidentally slammed his right index finger in a door and wound up in the hospital with a fracture, 14 stitches and a prescription for Vicodin. His finger is splinted and swathed in a huge white bandage...
...LANE: For the show they're gonna...
BRODERICK: [Finishing Lane's sentence] ... what, one of those rubber green ones...