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...guess from her easy assurance that no Asian actress has ever become a star in big-time films in the West. But Yeoh, 34, has always known how to handle herself. Consider the first scene in her first starring role, as a Hong Kong cop in the 1985 Yes, Madam: she walks into a library and, when a man exposes himself, slams a fat book shut on his offending member. She is a master of lightning kicks, splits and somersaults; she's also handy with firearms. A little Diaghilev, a little Dirty Harry...
...play explores the classic romantic triangle but with a twist: The "other woman" is an ectoplasmic ex-wife. Charles Condomine (Robert Bouffier) is a writer researching the occult for his next novel. Together with his second wife, Ruth (Sheila Ferrini), he summons the delightfully eccentric medium Madam Arcati (Mara Clark) to perform a seance in his home. Through some mysterious circumstances, his first wife Elvira (Dee Nelson) appears--and refuses to leave. One disaster after another ensues as Elvira and Ruth fight it out for their husband--fertile ground for Coward to flex his comic muscle...
...actors attempt--sometimes successfully--to overcome Coward's theatrical missteps. The effortless performance of Mara Clark as Madam Arcati is the highlight of this show. She alone is able to transcend the weighty constraints of her character and convince the audience of her authenticity...
SENTENCED. HEIDI FLEISS, 31, "Hollywood Madam"; to 37 months in jail; for tax evasion, laundering profits from her call-girl business and conspiring to hide her crimes; in Los Angeles...
...Setting a high financial standard for single motherhood, she exulted, "This is the greatest miracle of my life"--a cry not generally echoed in parts of the country where 48% of the children were born to single mothers. Rosie O'Donnell threw her a baby shower, her pediatrician was madam Heidi Fleiss's father, and her progeny-provider was her personal trainer, who, while deprived of the privileges of Mr. Madonnahood, posed for photos in hopes of a modeling career. Not to be outshone, Michael Jackson also got pregnant...