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...told the B-School to notify deferred admits we're interested," said Donald Linn, vice president of Blyth Eastman Paine JWebber, an investment banking firm. "It's one more opportunity for us to get a shot at qualified people...
Though he manages to tell a tale without diminishing his allusive humor, Durang still needs to work on rounding his characters. The actors in Harvard's production, giddily directed by Actor Mark Linn-Baker (My Favorite Year), are adept, but only Daisy (Stephen Rowe) is given a moment of credible self-awareness. If Durang could bring a touch of the play's final forgiveness to its early scenes, Baby with the Bath Water would mark a major advance in an already noteworthy career...
That possibility is always a worry. "I don't like to see a child have to get up and testify," says Brenda Watson, a founder of the West Linn, Ore., firm that makes the anatomically correct dolls. "But what happened to him or her was worse. The only way to protect the children is to go through the judicial system." -By Bennett H. Beach. Reported by Magda Krance/Chicago and Laura Meyers/Los Angeles
...Favorite Year" is 1954, and the narrator is Benjy (Mark Linn-Baker), a junior scriptwriter-cum-gopher on an NBC comedy show. His job is to keep an eye on the show's upcoming guest star, Alan Swann (O'Toole), a faded but still popular swashbuckler whom Benjy idolizes. His task is not an easy one: a man who keeps flasks of 12-year-old scotch sewn into the lining of his coat. Swann has a propensity for appearing on tabloid covers in morally dubious positions...
...gusto and relish that only British actors seem to possess. Of course, precious few crumbs are left for the rest of the cast to nibble on. They manage as best they can, but they simply don't triumph over the material. It's hard to pass judgement on Mark Linn-Baker; the timorous quality of his nice-Jewish-boy persona seems to have been written into the script, and there's little that he can do to overcome it. Joseph Bologna, Jessica Harper, Bill Macy, and Adolph Green are all fine character actors, but in this case, we've seen...