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...Robin, 24, a former Saturday Night Live writer who joined the Seinfeld staff this season, remembered the anxiety he felt about switching barbers, from the old man who had cut his hair for years to a younger barber in the same shop. "It was like breaking up with your lover," he says. He proposed an episode in which Jerry goes through similar angst after a bad haircut...
...another scene, Lana conspires in a public park with her lover (and car mechanic) to kill Ned in the one absurdly unlikely way that would triple her life insurance collection. To prevent other park visitors from overhearing their plot, they start speaking in Yiddish (with subtitles for the audience). After a few sentences are exchanged, the man sitting next to them on the bench indicates that he has been following the whole conversation by reading the subtitles...
...night at the Boston Ballet's The Sleeping Beauty will not disappoint any lover of dance. And yet, the rarity of solos and duets on the stage illustrate the ballet's social nature and its lack of drama and psychological development. Even the much anticipated kiss occurs in Aurora's bed chamber with her parents, the King and Queen, by her side! Still, The Sleeping Beauty combines rare moments of stunning dancing with magical stagecraft for an enjoyable evening of theater and dance...
After several decades of teasingly elaborate but increasingly personal short poems, James Merrill made his current, deservedly-high reputation with The Changing Light at Sandover, a "modern epic" in which Merrill and his lover chat via Ouija board with a plethora of heavenly spirits. For the last few years, Merrill has published almost no poetry: he has, instead, been writing A Different Person, a memoir of his postcollegiate years in postwar Europe. Digressions, meditations and flash-forward passages follow each of the new book's 21 chapters, intended, the poet says, as "reveries suitable for a pillow book, for gossip...
...Merrill inhabited, when he chose, both the inaccessible world of the super-rich (James Merrill's much-married father, Charles Merrill, helped found Merrill Lynch) and the world of young, well-educated gay men long before either Stonewall or AIDS. When Charles first suspected that James had a male lover at Amherst, Merrill's mother had to talk Charles out of hiring a hit man. (But) during the time of A Different Person, Merrill moved in a wide circle of young gay American travelers and scholars, one defined at least as much by being a "gay" circle (to judge from...