Word: maiden
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...Wilson, Herb Gardner, Neil Simon, Brian Friel and Richard Nelson. It has been a season of movie- and TV-star glitter -- Jessica Lange, Alec Baldwin and Amy Madigan in A Streetcar Named Desire; Glenn Close, Gene Hackman and Richard Dreyfuss in Ariel Dorfman's politically inflamed Death and the Maiden; fast-rising Larry Fishburne, direct from the angry film Boyz N the Hood to Wilson's wistful Two Trains Running; Judd Hirsch; Alan Alda; Jane Alexander; Raul Julia; Gregory Hines. It has been a season of bountiful musicals -- Crazy for You for Gershwin nostalgia, Jelly's Last Jam for show...
...momentary sense of breath that the stars bring us." Instead of thinking about how to cut costs and reach a broader audience, producers who employ stars typically have to accede to higher salaries and shorter runs and thus raise ticket prices -- to a $50 top for Streetcar and Maiden -- to try to recoup faster...
...current displays of star power, the most profligate is Death and the Maiden, which opened last week. A political thriller cum debate by Chilean writer Ariel Dorfman about the difficulties of shifting from dictatorship to democracy, it stars five-time Oscar nominee Glenn Close as a woman raped and tortured by the old regime who wants to hunt down her abusers. Oscar winner Gene Hackman plays the genial doctor who may or may not have been the blindfolded woman's chief tormenter 15 years ago. Oscar winner Richard Dreyfuss portrays her husband, a liberal politician who seeks to preserve...
What accounts for the star stampede? The obvious answer is just such box- office magic. Impresarios often conclude, as did Roger Berlind of Death and the Maiden and Richard Seader of Shimada, that a new script by an unknown author absolutely requires star clout. Says Berlind: "The average straight play costs more than $1 million to produce. Doing one on Broadway without the protection of name recognizability is almost a lost business." Seader is even blunter: "We were originally considering off-Broadway. I don't think we would have done Shimada on Broadway without stars...
...shoes on everybody and introduce them to book learning. Says Carrick Patterson, former editor of the Arkansas Gazette: "They thought he had gotten too big for his britches." Clinton admits that he took too much for granted. He hiked license-tag fees. The fact that his wife used her maiden name and that the family was not a member of any organized religion did not help either...