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...Ally, the focus is on matters professional and romantic--here, about new attorneys Lynne (Gretchen Mol), Jeannie (Kathleen Robertson) and Sarah (Chyler Leigh). As on Ally, we see a high-priced law firm, eccentric cases and characters with nicknames like "the Worm." But don't think Kelley is only out to cannibalize Ally. He's also out to give feminist legal scholar Catharine MacKinnon a heart attack. Why else open the pilot with Lynne rehearsing opening arguments in the middle of the night in her skimpy jammies? Or run opening credits while the friends jog, put on makeup...
...London's Almeida Theatre can't help making a serious theatergoer's heart race. The drama, about a college guy who falls under the spell of a manipulative female artist, is making a gratifyingly swift transfer to New York City, retaining its London cast--Paul Rudd, Rachel Weisz, Gretchen Mol and Frederick Weller--and LaBute as director. Look for another unsettling evening, lots of theater-page debates and a battle for tickets. (Opens...
...lure to a classmate, Jenny (Gretchen Mol, the Vanity Fair cover girl who was in two Woody Allen films), and a threat to Jenny's fiancé Phillip (Frederick Weller, who played Brian Wilson in a recent Beach Boys bio-pic). Where attraction looms, in a LaBute play, pain must follow. It's his theme: that people, people like us, hurt people. He has the craft to ensure they do so instructively and entertainingly. The play wouldn't work as seductively as it does-the set-up, the darkening, the climactic switcheroo-without four beguiling actors who make their characters...
...that, after the hype of the Internet's infancy in Europe, the pendulum has swung too far the other way. "Venture capital should be a risk-long business," says Nick Greenspan, a partner at Bain & Company and co-founder of bainlab. "Instead, it's become extremely risk-averse." Jerome Mol, founder and ceo of GorillaPark, says investors are judging European companies by American standards even though the U.S. market is larger and more advanced...
...Gretchen Mol...