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...Patrick redoubled his fund-raising efforts to meet a possible 2002 challenge from term-limited G.O.P. Governor Lincoln Almond, the family pitched in. Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. were hosts for a concert at Manhattan's Russian Tea Room that hauled in $100,000. A clambake at the Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port cleared $75,000. In March, Patrick made a surprise appearance onstage at the Providence Newspaper Guild Follies. Dressed in a sailor suit, he sang a rewrite of the Gilligan's Island theme. ("I'd asked a gal whom I had met/To take an evening...
...Represents the United States of Dyslexia b) Is Jasper Johns' greatest artistic leap in 40 years c) Was hanging from the balcony on the night Abe Lincoln was killed d) Was Strom Thurmond's swaddling cloth...
...performing a Pinter double-bill, Mountain Language and Ashes to Ashes. After London, the Royal Court show and One for the Road will travel to New York City with two other Gate productions, the double-bill of Landscape and A Kind of Alaska, and The Homecoming, to join Lincoln Center's nine-play Pinter Festival (July...
...Demand for these events has been tremendous. "Tickets have been flying out of the door," says Nigel Redden, director of the Lincoln Center Festival. Sales for the Pinter shows, he reports, are brisker than for last year's Bolshoi visit, its first in a decade. Redden says he received a telephone call from an excited Israeli before the Pinter Festival had even been publicized - the man wanted details so he and 18 friends could book flights to New York...
...Homecoming, for instance, a woman controls her patronizing husband and his lecherous family by becoming a high-class hooker. The Caretaker depicts a three-way conflict between a tramp and the two brothers who take him in. Pinter's most recent play, Celebration (also at the Lincoln Center Festival), features an oblique struggle for dominance between two sets of diners in a restaurant - yet you never know precisely why they are competing. The stakes are never obvious in Pinter. Characters' true meanings are always hidden between and behind the words. A simple invitation to sit down can become a dangerous...