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...evening, as guests snacked from glass plates of cheese and filet mignon, the early-afternoon euphoria seemed to have worn off. "Why haven't they called it, Murph?" the candidate asked at 8:20. The polls had closed nearly half an hour earlier in Michigan, but the networks still hadn't declared a winner. McCain walked across the 150-year-old Navajo rugs to the sofas, where some of his aides were seated. He was fretting. Maybe the exit polls, which had been close all day, were wrong. Maybe the Michigan Governor had been able to pull something...
...McNally is by far the more colorful -- and controversial. Before retiring from the New York police department in 1971, he collected 22 commendations and attained top standing as a first-grade detective, despite several internal investigations into his conduct. He is credited with collaring notorious jewel thief Jack ("Murph the Surf") Murphy in 1964. Since going private, McNally has provided his services to the defense of Patty Hearst, Bernhard Goetz and John Gotti. Defense attorney F. Lee Bailey, who is also part of the Simpson team, has tapped McNally's services regularly, as have other top attorneys...
Ramakrishnan faces the challenge of speaking all of his lines in Hindi. In the script, Horovitz translates Gupta's speeches into English so the reader will understand his meaning. On stage, however, Horovitz dramatizes Joey and Murph's inability to communicate with their society by creating a language barrier between them and Gupta. Ramakrishnan effectively conveys this barrier--the audience never suspects that he might actually know English...
...transforms the dilapidated basement of Cabot into a convincing inner-city bus stop with the addition of cinder blocks and a graffiti-covered public telephone. The small space works to his advantage because it intensifies the actors' claustrophobia. Bial's blocking follows through on this theme--Joey and Murph circle each other as they chant their song and gradually encircle the Indian after stealing his picture...
...main problems in The Indian Wants the Bronx stem from Horovitz's script. Horovitz has the characters screaming just a little too much. Additionally, Horovitz uses weak devices which burden the plot. At one point, Murph inexplicably leaves the stage so that Gupta and Joey can have their big scene. His departure destroys the closed-in atmosphere Bial successfully builds...