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...miles south of Kansas City, near the center of the U.S. but isolated from everything. You reach it by a two-lane highway that snakes through the Ozark Mountains with nothing but oak trees for company. You round a corner and -- Look! -- there is a line of campers and cars stretching to the horizon, crawling along a five-mile strip of neon lights that flash from theaters, motels and miniature golf courses...
...tunes, they feel like interlopers, a misfit minority. This gay-straight conflict, subtly mused on, lifts Terrence McNally's LIPS TOGETHER, TEETH APART beyond tragicomic tone poetry about the lonely vagaries of wedlock. Since the play opened last month off-Broadway, the foursome have been exquisitely played by Nathan Lane, Anthony Heald, Swoosie Kurtz and Christine Baranski. Alas, both actresses depart this week for other commitments. The replacements are estimable -- Roxanne Hart for Kurtz, Deborah Rush for Baranski -- but it is hard to imagine that the emotional journey, all around the world on one sun deck, can be the same...
...insinuations of Kitty Kelley satisfied some readers and repelled others. A third group could not get enough backstairs gossip, and its members are the target audience for A House of Secrets (Birch Lane; 237 pages; $18.95). The novel has two things to recommend it: a plausible first-person tone of wounded innocence, and an author named Patti Davis -- better known as the daughter of Nancy D. Reagan. The narrator is one Carla Lawton, who grows up in California with few friends and one opponent: her mother. Rachel Lawton lies compulsively and attempts to control every aspect of her child...
Movie executives weren't wooing black filmmakers when Charles Burnett ( graduated from UCLA's film school in 1974. And Charles Lane didn't get many offers when he graduated from the film program at the State University of New York College at Purchase in 1980. But that didn't stop either man from making movies. Lane went on to win a student Academy Award for best short in 1976 for A Place in Time, a 36-minute experimental film about a street artist; 13 years later, he revived that film's Chaplinesque hero in Sidewalk Stories, a silent feature that...
Until recently, however, neither director had much visibility outside film- festival circles. Burnett, who supported his family and his film projects with foundation grants and odd jobs, couldn't even find a commercial distributor for his work. Now both are beginning to shake off the hothouse stigma. Lane, 37, is making his big-budget debut in August with True Identity, a $16 million comedy about a black man forced to pass for white in order to evade Mafia hit men. Although he had to ask for changes that would make the movie less offensive to blacks, Lane admits...