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Alyssa Milano (Jennifer Mancini...
Amancharla received a plaque in recognition of his achievement last Friday at the Freshman Dean's Office from Linda Paras, president of NAE, and Peter Mancini, a manager in the education department of Autodesk, Inc., the company which manufactures AutoCAD...
Regardless, I feel like I should probably do what a competent reporter would do to an unscrutinized belief--scrutinize it. So I call the casino and soon I'm talking to Savero Mancini, a man I've got to assume is not one of the tribal elders. Before I can get to my questions, he's unloading facts on me left and right: 170,000 square feet; 2,600 slots, etc. Then he starts into more peculiar terrain. "The day-care program is fully licensed," he explains, "with very tight security...There's only...
...steer him towards a discussion of the cultural, economic and political issues involved in building a tribal casinos, but Mancini pleads ignorance. He doesn't know about the tribe, only the casino. What he can tell me, however, is that, "Mohegan Sun keeps its Indian theme." In fact, one of the restaurants is named after the grandsons of Uncas, the founding father of the tribe. "So the casino serves Native American cuisine?" I ask, at once impressed and surprised. But Mancini pauses, apparently flustered by my line of reasoning. "No, it's Italian food...
...Star quality" is a term notoriously hard to define. But whatever it is, Julie Andrews, with her outflung smile and crystalline enunciations, still has it. A pity, then, she didn't have richer musical material than the humdrum score by the late Henry Mancini (including songs from the movie such as Le Jazz Hot), with additional numbers by Frank Wildhorn. It's touching, and a little sad, to watch this woman who, nearly 40 years ago, crested to fame in what remains arguably the greatest Broadway musical, My Fair Lady, now throwing herself into songs that have no afterlife; their...