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Angered by the move, the abductors telephoned Laura Calissoni, 29, daughter of Anna and sister of Giorgio, and informed her that something was waiting in a trash can in Rome's Piazza Santa Maria Maggiore. There in a plastic bag the family found a severed ear that investigators believed to be Giorgio's. A second caller directed a reporter from the Rome daily Il Messaggero to another garbage can, in Piazza Barberini, where the photograph was found, accompanied by two messages. One, from Anna Calissoni, was addressed to Pope John Paul II. "I pray you," the note read...
...children want them or because television says other children want them. Maybe they do not want them as much as parents want them. Or perhaps there are other reasons. A New York Times reporter in New Jersey saw five-year-old Eileen Napoli clutching a Cabbage Patch doll named Laura and dutifully asked the girl why she liked her doll. Said Eileen: "She has a real belly button.'' -By Otto Friedrich. Reported by Robert Carney/New York
...autobiography in the form of a situation comedy. The first half of the play could be called "Mama's Family": Amanda Wingfield, a fiftyish matron whose husband abandoned her 15 years earlier, plots to find a "gentleman caller" who will support her and marry her shy, lame daughter Laura. In the second half, a young man does call-no gentleman, rather an awkward go-getter whose own glory days are long past-and a bittersweet romance flutters through and out of Laura's life. Amanda, Laura and Tom (Laura's brother and the play's narrator...
...production is graced with two splendid actresses in two splendid roles; each falls just short. As Laura, Amanda Plummer spends the first act in pained watchfulness, mothering her collection of glass animals, nursing herself toward psychosis. She comes to life in her scenes with gentleman Jim (John Heard, in a brisk and engaging performance). "Somebody ought to-Ought to-kiss you, Laura!" Jim proclaims. As he leans in and embraces her, Laura surrenders her body and mouth to him, but not yet her wavering right arm. The hand pauses in midair, uncertain whether or how to commit, then grasps firmly...
...assurance of her craft. Tandy's Amanda is flinty, not flighty; a hawk, not a dithery dove; a bustling den mother, not a senescent teenager who treats the gentleman caller to some of her own old-fashioned wooing. Williams' characters may not be as fragile as Laura's menagerie, but they deserve to be handled with care. Tandy's hand, like that of the production, is pure wrought iron. -By Richard Corliss