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...creates holocausts -- a legitimate fear we all should have. But the recent reaction to the demagoguery of Minister Louis Farrakhan is part of a larger, very American fear of black hate. This is a phantom dreamed up by people who knew what slavery ought to have created long before Nat Turner struck out with his heartless blade. Black hate, though, is only a new wrinkle in the increasingly negative portrayal of blacks as a whole. Since the Reagan Administration's rollback of civil rights, African Americans have consistently been brought to the American public as predators -- street thugs and welfare...
...same as realities. "The book does not say that to talk about a thing is the same as doing the thing," she says. But she doesn't always resist the opportunity to court confusion between the two. "Please disavow this rape of me in your name," she asked Nat Hentoff, the syndicated columnist and hard- line defender of the First Amendment, whose last name Romano had borrowed for his fictional reviewer. (The Dworkin part Romano lifted from another First Amendment stalwart, the legal scholar Ronald Dworkin.) Hentoff complied by publishing a column angrily doing just that. "Rape also means plundering...
Whatever the strengths of Timon, NAT is not remotely worthy of comparison with London's Royal National and Royal Shakespeare companies or Canada's Shaw and Stratford festivals. If Timon is a great leap forward, Randall's next vehicle, The Government Inspector, could be a big jump back. He plays the title role, a naif of 23 -- an age Randall reached half a century ago. The irrepressible farceur says with a mildly manic laugh, "I'd like to be acting every night of my life. That's why I formed this theater." His tone sobering, he adds, "In a noncommercial...
...NAT's audience seems to agree. Randall is the selling point to ticket buyers and potential sponsors. Executive producer Manny Kladitis concedes, "I don't know how long we could survive without him," in tones that suggest the likely duration would be a day and a half. While season subscribers have fallen from 27,000 the opening year to about 18,000 today, that is competitive with the 23,000 for the much older Roundabout, a nonprofit Broadway company that favors more contemporary, commercial work...
Nonetheless, the majority of NAT's $8 million budget comes from two patrons -- a French emigre named Laura Pels, who believes she is helping launch an American equivalent of the Comedie-Francaise, and Randall himself. He takes no salary, donates all outside earnings, and has given more than $1 million in savings to fulfill "a lifelong dream." Randall also raised $1.2 million for the first season via a one-night benefit in which he and Jack Klugman reprised their TV-series roles in the stage version of The Odd Couple. Next summer he and Klugman plan a two-month, eight...