Word: marvinism
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...flavor, March of the Falsettos has an exhilarating champagne tang; in substance, it carries the weight of a cork. In an operatic mode, sans dialogue, Finn somewhat erratically unveils the bittersweet saga of Marvin (Michael Rupert), who divorces his wife Trina (Alison Fraser) to be with his male lover Whizzer Brown (Stephen Bogardus). As Marvin's owl-eyed young son Jason (James Kushner) puts it, "My father's a homo/ My mother's not thrilled...
...However, Marvin is innately domestic ("I want a tight-knit family"), and through the agency of a psychiatric guru, Mendel, played in an excruciatingly droll fashion by Chip Zien, a leaky roof is kept over all heads. From the opening number, Four Jews in a Room Bitching, the humor is spikily and spicily urban and ethnic. The actors are spirited, and Director James Lapine's tempo is stopwatch crisp. In astringence and cleverness, Finn is the child of Stephen Sondheim. In the current musical theater, no one could choose a better master or pay an apter tribute...
...that the Sugar Ray Leonard-Thomas Hearns showdown is a reality, all the talk centers on what will happen after the fight. The New York Times reports that there will be three Leonard-Hearns fights. The Boston Globe promises that after he beats Hearns, Leonard will give middleweight champ Marvin Hagler a well-deserved payday. The New York Post claims that Leonard will retire after the September bout--win, lose or draw...
...eighth round, and I'll be surprised if Leonard takes even a single round up to that point. Sugar Ray is a good fighter, but Hearns is a great one. What will happen after the fight is heard to say. Maybe, as the Globe says, Leonard will challenge Marvin Hagler. Maybe, as the Post claims, Leonard will retire. But Leonard climbing into the ring for a second or third Hearns fight? After what will happen on September 16, I seriously doubt...
...Dearest Ros" letter to Roswell Gilpatric, which was said to have driven Ari to Callas behavior. Billie Jean King's recent revelations were due less to a spasm of candor than to more than 100 letters she wrote her secretary. So it goes, from post to pillory. Lee Marvin made legal history a few years back when he lost a "palimony" suit to Michelle Triola Marvin. One of his letters to Michelle closed: "Hey baby, hey baby, hey baby, hey baby, hey baby, hey baby." It proved that he loved...