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What is surprising, is the ease with which the story is transplanted to the 1990's. The Faustus character, Peter Prideau, a Peabody Professor of Christian Morals over at the Divinity School, inadvertently discovers a demon while fiddling with new software called "Cybernectromantics." Desperate to see his deceased wife, Laura, once more, Prideau makes a deal with the demon, nicking his finger with the proffered Swiss army knife and bartering his soul for a meeting with his beloved...
...willing to make excuses," junior heavyweight stroke Laura Brookins said. "We're going to put it on the line with every race...
...1930s and '40s. Can the dim-bulb performance of Marisa Tomei in Only You (1994) stand up to Carole Lombard's luminosity in My Man Godfrey (1936)? How can Winona Ryder, Uma Thurman, Sarah Jessica Parker and Drew Barrymore compete with Rita Hayworth's Gilda, Gene Tierney's Laura, Ingrid Bergman's Ilsa in Casablanca and Merle Oberon's Cathy in Wuthering Heights? It's the same twentysomething age group, but these actresses had more than faces. They were riper, more mature, more compelling and light-years ahead in performance power. Jean Harlow in any of her 1930s flicks...
...second act, dealing with more serious topics, is not so joke-filled as the first, but its satire of the Eighties is bitingly funny. Mendel most openly condemns the new decade: "half my patients/yuppie pagans/modeled on this/Ronald Reagan" Yet he and Trina seem to be living quite the yuppified Laura-Ashley-decorated lifestyle. In this act, real love develops between Whizzer and Martin, as does some of the loveliest music of the show. In these quiet, poignant moments, the cast's talent for handling emotion with delicacy and without melodrama and their collective vocal strength, is most clearly showcased...
...Reported by Laura Lopez/Mexico City and Elaine Shannon/Washington