Word: mcmillan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...accoladas for this production of The Club must go primarily to its troop of stars. Katherine Benfer, Lisa McMillan, Maggie Task and Carolyn Val-Schmidt succeed spectacularly in their masquerade as males (as do Jean Bonard as the club's waiter, Cookie Harlin as the bellboy, and Catherine cappiello as the maestro). The four women manage to mask their sex completely, making the play's conclusion unexpected and delightful, rather than just a foolish coda to a musical frolic. While the actresses use gestures and facial expressions skillfully, it is their vocal talents that carry the play. The Club...
...this biography of Oswald, McMillan went to Texas to conduct a series of exhaustive interviews over a seven-month period with Oswald's Russian wife, Marina, and also talked with many of the people who had known Lee after his return to the U.S. in 1962. The author brought together the material on Oswald scattered through the 26 volumes of the Warren Report and in many recently declassified documents. Out of these data, covering all 24 years of Oswald's life, McMillan has constructed a remarkable portrait of a man on his way to a murder...
...dependent. Once married, they provoked each other in a classic case of folie a deux. In bed, Marina put Lee down mercilessly for his premature ejaculations and deliberately aroused his pathological jealousy by praising her past boy friends or her current pinups. One of Marina's revelations to McMillan is that she provoked Lee's fury with talk of her sexual attraction for Kennedy. It may well have been one reason why Lee's free-floating rage finally settled on the President. That is a compelling notion - more so than many of the conspiracy theories that depersonalize...
...tung and John F. Kennedy. He declared that in 20 years he himself would be President, or maybe Prime Minister, of the U.S. Such a rich fantasy life had to be concealed from the real world, so Lee became a compulsive liar and profoundly distrustful, like his mother. As McMillan points out, his personality made him an unlikely recruit in an assassination plot that would require accepting orders, obeying plans and working with coconspirators. Instead, she believes he acted alone to affirm his uniqueness the only way he knew how-by violence...
Still, Marina was not quite the typical battered wife. She was Oswald's mate, in the strict sense of the term. The squalid tale of their symbiotic relationship - told in excruciating detail by McMillan - makes it difficult to imagine Lee with out Marina. When he proposed to her, she was the belle of the Minsk Culture Palace dance hall and, at 20, a full-grown shrew...