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THEATER A smart, fast comedy dares to laugh about AIDS...
Rage and pity, even self-pity, have their place as well as their limits. Now let's try laughter -- the best medicine, as Reader's Digest, Norman Cousins and Paul Rudnick can tell you. Rudnick has already earned many a healthy laugh with his plays Poor Little Lambs and I Hate Hamlet and his comic essays in Vanity Fair and Spy. Jeffrey, though, is a real tonic. It's a wonderful comedy about a rancid tragedy: the crape of death hanging over any gay guy who is crazy about...
Jeffrey is a play too smart for self-pity. But in daring to laugh, then to cry, it reveals itself as a cunning twist on the old-fashioned Broadway-style comedy. It begins with a group grope and ends with a kiss. It is underscored with dreamy, pertinent Gershwin songs (Fascinating Rhythm, Embraceable You, They Can't Take That Away from Me). And it considers, with a wisdom born of irreverence, a genteel old dilemma. Until the pill, a threat of pregnancy ; loomed over any nice young man who considered having sex with someone he loved. Now especially...
...private tour. "I think he and Butch thought it was the funniest thing in the world that suddenly he was now in the position to really cash in," says Will Blythe, Esquire's literary editor. "They would just look at each other during the meal and start to laugh...
...campaign plan was fraught with faulty assumptions and overoptimistic revenue and spending projections. That was fine for then -- no one caught on, and Clinton won -- but it's about to be his deficit and his hard choices, and as one of Clinton's economic aides says with a laugh, "Seeing the road out is proving a bit difficult...