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...With a mock vote on whether to depose Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III, rookie Undergraduate Council members got their first taste of council procedure in an introductory meeting yesterday...
...woman convinced she's in control of her life and her men. "He is extremely clear about what he wants, but he's not close minded; he's no bully." Travolta says Tarantino trusts actors: "He lets you put all the icing on the cake. For Vincent, I could mock up the hair, the accent, the walk, the talk." The result is a deft portrait of a guy who moves warily and at his own slo-mo pace, as if he needed all his concentration just to stay alive...
Marilyn Sokol (Gittel, Sender Shlamazel, Yenta Pesha) is a performing genious as far as bawdy presentational exhibition is concerned, and Charles Levin (Gronam Ox) knows how to sing and strut mock arrogance and hammed idiocy as well as anyone. Remo Airaldi, with a stout frame assisting, caricatures overweight kids and clever petty thieves with equal virtuosity. So why are they only supporting performers...
...Huffingtons relieve themselves of the stress of politics with Saturday Night Live-type skits for their friends, in which they mock Feinstein. Says Arianna: "We had her pulling toy levers, saying, 'There crime goes down; there unemployment goes down.' " Then someone mimics a grumpy judge in a courtroom, "Oh, let me see, what kind of race are you? Oh, you're African American. We are not going to sentence you. Our list is already full." The latter refers to Feinstein's hope of finding a way to ensure that convicted blacks aren't sentenced to death in numbers disproportionate...
Absolutely, positively not to be missed is Wishman's transsexual mock-documentary, "Let Me Die a Woman." The film follows the patients of one Dr. Leo Wollman. A minister, a psychologist, a sex-therapist and a surgeon who looks like he could repair your 1972 Gremlin, Wollman reads his cue cards very well. A sad portrait of the third sex, the film asks, and attempts to answer, "What, who and why are transsexuals?" Wishman says that she "felt so sorry for these people" and "felt as if she had exploited them." But then quickly counters with the fact that...