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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cousin King (Stephen Root), the conniver, and his sugarcoated dragon of a wife Clairice (Jane Murray) want to raze the house and put up a "Christian shopping center." The twins, Ruth (Pat Nesbit) and Raymond (Ray Dooley), resent that plan but do not want to move back in either. Miss Anna (Lizan Mitchell), a black family retainer whom everyone believes to be an illegitimate child of Grandfather Vaughnum's, feels that the house is rightly hers. Bobby (Fritz Sperberg), the lawyer who hopes to marry Ruth, thinks everyone is going off half-cocked about the legalities...
...naturally, with rowdy humor so integral to their personalities, that Lonely Street seems more a slice of life than a "well-made play." Even in the two most finely honed scenes--when Ruth and Raymond discuss why, despite their affection, they have always avoided each other, and when Miss Anna learns the truth about her parentage--Deer never allows the audience enough emotional distance to perceive what is happening as mere craftsmanship. She benefits greatly from Kent Stephens' direction and a superb cast. Mitchell, as a woman both addled and coy with age, has the showiest part...
...Gulf of Mexico. The crew members are latter-day lake dwellers who alternate two-week tours of twelve-hour shifts with two weeks at home. Cleckler, 57, the food manager, finds cooking more rewarding aboard the rig than it is when she prepares meals back home in Brooklyn, Miss., for her grandchildren, who say McDonald's food is better. Says Cleckler, one of the eight women aboard who do the housekeeping and cooking: "Out here our work is really appreciated. Let's see what a big-city food critic thinks...
...night action. At first the Navy claimed that a Libyan patrol boat 38 miles away had been hit. But officials later backed off, admitting that the cruiser may have been shooting at a "mirage." If the gunboat was for real, ask critics, did the Harpoons (cost: $944,000 each) miss? And if the Yorktown was shooting at a mirage, what does that say about the $1 billion cruiser's complex, highly sensitive Aegis radar defense system...
...time the charges were dropped, an attorney for Miss Kidd said there were no conditions tied to the dismissal. He declined to comment on whether his client had cooperated with police or whether she had testified before the grand jury...