Word: megged
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reported by Meg Grant/Los Angeles and Amamath Singh/New York
...while the play is undeniably designed to elicit laughter over tears it is not without a message. The importance of family fealty operates aa a recurrent theme throughout the drama as the likelihood of Babe's downfall heightens the need for people to pursue their dreams. When Meg bitterly assails herself and her family for her foiled singing career, and Lenny whines on about being a victim of a psychological aberration, both sisters muster the courage to "go for it." It is this triumph of will, of determination not to repeat their mother's easy way out, that enables Babe...
...Harold & Sarah & Sam & Karen & Michael & Meg & Nick-classmates all from the University of Michigan at the end of our last interesting decade-have come to the funeral of a friend who has slashed his wrists. Alex was a charismatic prodigy of science and friendship and progressive hell raising who opted out of academe to try social work, then manual labor, then suicide. He is presented as a victim of terminal decompression from the orbital flight of his college years: a worst-case scenario his friends must ponder, probing themselves for symptoms of the disease...
...baton twirlers for PEOPLE and tries vainly to assign himself a story on the lost hope he sees around nun this weekend. "You think everything's boring," he snarls to his editor over the phone. "You wouldn't say that if it was the Lost Hope Diet." Meg (Mary Kay Place), a lawyer, got tired of public-defending minority criminals who "were just so ... guilty "and went to work for a posh law firm whose "clients were raping only the land." Nick (William Hurt) went to Viet Nam and got his manhood blown off; now, the impotent cynic...
...alien being here is Chloe (Meg Tilly), Alex's ex-girlfriend, a decade younger and more limber, monitoring the action with eyes that have seen it all and ain't telling. You have to make eye contact with this wonderful ensemble of actors; the pregnant or averted glances they exchange constitute a geometry of tangled passions. JoBeth Williams can say more by directing her big sad eyes off-screen than volumes of Emily Dickinson; in Mary Kay Place's squint is the weather-beaten humor of a career woman who wants an emergency jolt of motherhood; William...