Word: mistressing
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...comes to see, and she exceeds expectations. Though she has played Dolly more than 4,000 times, her gawky, over-the-top performance is still heartfelt and honest, and the audience cheers her for it. There's more gravel in her baritone, but she is pitch-perfect and a mistress of timing. She can build a laugh into a roar by simply chewing. And her disdain is magnificent, contemplating a gift of "chocolate-covered peanuts -- unshelled...
Housing Secretary HENRY CISNEROS is being sued by former mistress, Linda Medlar, who says he broke an "oral contract" to pay her $4,000 a month for damages following the exposure of their affair in 1990. Cisneros, who reconciled with his wife, denies a contract but admits giving Medlar "intermittent" $4,000 payments as well as $36,000 as a final settlement. The Secretary told TIME he leased a car for Medlar, gave her a $16,000 down payment on a house and paid her daughter's tennis-camp tuition. Medlar says she received no settlement, no car, no tuition...
...Lithgow presents a Leopold acquiescent to self-destruction, Rouse demands a more complex interpretation, reading Havel's play as a study in tragic hilarity. Rouse goes a fair distance to portray the outside world from which Leopold is excluded, transforming Lucy (Jessica Walling), Leopold's unrequited mistress, into a lascivious lover who must compete with the male "friend" Bertram, for the professor's attention, and juxtaposing the confused living room existence of the actual drama with cascades off-stage laughter between Leopold's friends, Suzana (Jessica Fortunato) and Edward (Thomas Parks...
Harassed by Bertram, his other "fans" Sidney and Sidney (Mark Fish and Michael Stone) from the paper mill, his enemies, the two Chaps (also Fish and Stone) representing the baneful "they" and his assertive mistress, Lucy, Lithgow's Leopold is an oppressed identity whose self-imprisonment in his living room reflects a more malignant psychological incarceration in a meaningless system of language and behavior...
...least, when Harry is playing the spy, he knows his part. But he doesn't know how to act like a good husband, or even a jealous one. When a sleazy salesman (Bill Paxton) brags that Helen is his mistress, Harry uses all his spy tricks to catch her in the act -- or lure her into it. The man who has no time to be with his wife does have time to prey on her, especially in the two- way mirror scene...