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...original book and now 91 years old - the story is what seems least compelling. Partly this is due to the competent but bland cast. As Tony, leader of the Anglo gang the Jets, Matt Cavenaugh is an attractive, sweet-voiced Broadway leading man, but he doesn't look like he could survive a game of touch football, must less a gang rumble. As Maria, the virginal Puerto Rican girl he falls for, newcomer Josefina Scaglione has a lovely voice and good energy but seems to be acting by the numbers. (Karen Olivo, as her friend Anita, is the only...
...thin to live up to its ambitions. I don't expect a stage musical about street gangs to have the grit or nuance of the better Hollywood films of the same era, like Blackboard Jungle or Rebel Without a Cause (though a cast of gang members who didn't look like they stepped out of a Chorus Line audition might help). But I do want a love story with at least a hint of conviction, plausibility or sexual heat. The attraction of Maria and Tony is barely motivated to begin with; with two charisma-deficient stars in the roles...
...lawyer, Howard Kleinhendler, of Wachtel & Masyr LLP, is following the money trail and believes Madoff's Chase account was "suspicious" and should have been shut down the moment the bank pulled its funds from Fairfield Greenwich. Kleinhendler represents a dozen Madoff victims. (Read "Madoff Victims Look for Ways to Recover Their Money...
...briefing, Frank contended that the government should exercise this right as the majority shareholder and deny payment for breach of contract. In an appearance on Face the Nation, Frank proposed that in order to exercise these rights, "what we ought to be doing is suing as a shareholder, saying, 'look these are people who were paid bonuses that they weren't entitled...
...fact lives a single day longer. As with Zocor, early CT scans and early detection may in fact make a difference in how long someone lives, but in order to determine how big that difference is, you need to peel back the numbers and look more closely at individual cases...