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...first appeared on Broadway in 1968, and its lead roles have been a recurrent draw to major actors ever since. For Jim Dale, a manic clown who won a Tony for walking a tightrope in Barnum, and Stockard Channing, a lopsided-grinning gamine best known for mugging her way through the movie Grease, there could scarcely be better parts to broaden their images. Brian and Sheila cannot have anything like a normal life if they keep their helpless spastic daughter Josephine; they cannot rid themselves of guilt if they remand her to the unloving custody of the state. Yet, mercifully...
Perhaps it was all a gaudy American self-indulgence, the war and the music getting together to create a prototype of the rock video. In both the countercultural side-show and the councils of power that made war policy, there was a note of manic narcissism, of self-importance, almost of autoeroticism. There was dangerous fun in the air, the sheer buzz of so much power, a life-and-death excitement. But someone should have known better...
...that year went on, Johnson's manic-depressive swings seemed to speed up. In August 1966: "Our forces will not be defeated. A Communist military takeover is no longer just improbable; as long as the U.S. and our brave allies are in the field, it is impossible." By January 1967 it was this way: "It would be just my luck to have the bombers come over North Viet Nam and the lead plane would be piloted by a boy from Johnson City and he'd put a bomb right down the smokestack of a Soviet ship in Haiphong Harbor...
Cyndi Lauper is the manic outsider in every high school class - brassy and sensitive, dippy and shrewd - whose hair seems to have been colored by a box of melted Crayolas and who dresses in the kinds of duds gypsies might wear if they had proms. Part Piaf, part Little Peggy March, she also has a razzle- dazzle, multi-octave range, a voice that can coax a broken promise out of a ballad or pin a rocker right to the mat. She has the whole package. But Madonna has the look...
...MYSTERY OF IRMA VEP. This perfect travesty raids Jane Eyre, Poe and mummy movies. Everett Quinton and Playwright-Director Charles Ludlam perform all eight roles, some in drag, some simultaneously, with manic precision...