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...Laurel and Hardy--think a snappier Saps at Sea--except that the Stan and Ollie here are Tucci and co-star Oliver Platt. Tucci, incapable of a gross moment even in the slapstick, seasick exertions of shipboard burlesque, nicely approximates Laurel's high, piping whine as counterpoint to Platt's unctuous exasperation. They are two actors stowed away on a '40s-ish ocean liner, ever scurrying from a British stage star who wants them arrested, gelded, dead. Also onboard are a deposed queen (Isabella Rossellini), a gay tennis player (Billy Connolly), a Teutonic chief steward (Campbell Scott) and a suicidal...
...barely mentioned W.C. Fields and had nothing on Laurel and Hardy. These men were without equal in bringing art into comedy! ROLAND LAYTON Lewisburg, W.Va...
Dartmouth Director of Public Affairs Laurel Stavis noted the many accomplishments that mark Freedman's tenure as Dartmouth's president...
...after the sexual encounter, or just plain stonewall them. "I was nine when I asked my mother the Big Question," says Michael, in Detroit. "I'll never forget. She took out her driver's license and pointed to the line about male or female. 'That is sex,' she said." Laurel, a 17-year-old in Murfreesboro, Tenn., wishes her parents had taken more time with her to shed light on the subject. When she was six and her sister was nine, "my mom sat us down, and we had the sex talk," Laurel says. "But when...
...Widow and the Wizard" brought back vivid memories of my experience in Laurel, Miss., in early 1966 [LAW, May 18]. I was an FBI special agent who had been sent to Laurel along with numerous other agents. We were involved in the investigation of the fire-bombing murder of Vernon Dahmer by the Ku Klux Klan. Klan leader Sam Bowers would often sit across the street from the Laurel FBI office in his souped-up 1940 black Ford. He usually was with another Klansman. They were "surveilling" us, the FBI. Bowers' Klan organization was known as the White Knights...