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...remark is not only rough, it's wrong. Nancy Reagan's gelid smile and fixed gaze are foreign to Robinson, who really sparkles when she meets people. She has a thrilling, throaty laugh, but quips are not her style. Her brothers and old friends insist that she can top tall stories with the best of them -- and that in a land where the gab is the biggest gift of all. Around a dinner table, she and her husband often talk vehemently and at once, taking different verbal paths to the same end -- rather like characters in an opera...
...brothers dividing the petty sticks of furniture that constitute their father's estate. The play returned to Broadway last week in an impeccable staging, with film veteran Hector Elizondo (Pretty Woman) giving the performance of his career as the resentful, duty- bound brother and Eli Wallach wringing every imaginable laugh from a tragicomic turn as an 89-year-old immigrant furniture dealer...
...Joshua Judges Ruth, the weirdness is harder to laugh off. The lyrics are gaunt and elusive, the melodies so familiar as to be generic, the arrangements as spare and naked as the sentiments. The album's intertwined themes are keyed in its title: three books from the Old Testament -- the all-time best seller of wrath and reconciliation -- that pun on a man's need to pass stern judgment on women...
This could seem like a terminal display of down-home misogyny. Women treat men like cow patties; men get even writing country music. But Lovett touches on more elemental issues: religion and death. Religion can make you laugh, as in Church, where a ravenous minister eats "a great white dove from up above." And death can offer solace. In Since the Last Time, a man at his own funeral is happy "Seeing all those people I ain't seen/Since the last time somebody died...
...feel victorious, although no one has handed me a crown with a scepter or an Academy Award," Barrett says with a laugh...