Word: lavine
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...here he is in this bar and probably won't make it tonight. David Buskin and Robin Batteau are classically trained musicians, sophisticated enough to put across an intricate, pun-mad parody of Thomas Mann's Death in Venice ("He was a great musician, who finally learned decomposition . . .") Christine Lavin sings witty, wistful songs about shouldering your way through the big world when you are only five feet tall and not very fierce...
...Pirandello characters, too, must play themselves, but in a more metaphysical sense. Each allegorical character follows his own inexorable law, fixed in a reality which never changes. Actress Linda Lavin plays the Mother, a character trapped in an eternal moment of grief. Lavin, who played the title role in the CBS sit-com "Alice," makes her tragedy seem frighteningly real. Her limping movements, quavery voice and a face of pure sorrow bring her character to life...
Written by nine students, North by North Middle parodies Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest with Roger Thornbook (Jerry Lavin) as an innocent pre-law student and the outraged victim of a mistaken identity who is pursued by police and KGB agents. Lavin pulls off an excellent, recognizable impersonation of Cary Grant, complete with a little "ih" sound before every phrase...
Catherine L. Lavin Bridgewater...
...other women will follow her and take their jobs. A supervisor hints delicately at the problem women have with "certain tensions at certain times." Other women attack her, and even her own daughter, embarrassed by taunts from the other kids, asks her to give up. Ellen persists, however, and Lavin makes the struggle of a simple woman more persuasive in its dramatic impact than a whole library of ideological tracts...