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...church Episcopal mentor at St. Andrew's School in Tennessee, who remained his confidant from the time Agee was ten, to old classmates at Phillips Exeter and Harvard, to his three wives and countless lovers, to all the women who satisfied what he confessed was a "run-to-Mama" complex...
...thought she had lifted something too heavy for her during the family's move from South Carolina to New York. But months later, the pain was still getting worse. "Oh, Mama, "her two children would say, "try to forget it." She went to two orthopedic surgeons and a rheumatologist. No one could find anything wrong. "If you get out and run, you'll feel so much better," her husband suggested. But she knew she was unable to run. She began to believe she was making up the pain. "You want to hide your face. Everybody gets tired...
Leppmann, a literary historian and critic, is particularly adept at placing Rilke in his constricting time (circa 1900) and suffocating place (Habsburg Vienna). Given these obstacles, plus the additional one of a neurotic mama, no other modern poet grew more-or had further to grow. His early poems were distinguished principally for their alliteration and easy sentimentality, and his early manhood remarkable mainly for its seductions...
...trouble from the start. For one thing, their schedules permit very little intimacy. For another, their inner urges find expression only in public places. Status, not love, is their true goal. Jennings wears designer fashions but cuts out the labels to avoid seeming affected. Billy dines at Mama's, a celebrity watering hole where "they serve you your importance." And Kelly acquires the right stuff at Prendergast's ("Prendie's"), a Bloomingdale's-like store whose underwear department, Private Parts, is off-limits...
...TRULY COMMANDING presence here, though, is Belle Linda Halperb. As Sally, Halpern makes her numbers--"Don't Tell Mama" and "Cabaret" the two show-stoppers of the evening. Her powerful, rich voice, enravishing and assured stage presence, and uncommon beauty, stand out so much in this production that Cliff's denigration of Sally's talent seems quite odd. For all her escapism and childishness, he should acknowledge her powers of performance. And Halpern sensitively draws forth the unsettled and quite neurotic aspects of Sally all throughout the show. While we cannot be made to admire Sally or pass over...