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...pain in the neck to Alyssa. I remember her saying "You know, I do have a father, Tony." I didn't get along with Andy at first, couldn't figure him out. We were such a team, and he wasn't part of the team. But then I got to know him. He was an acquired taste...
...dormant reputation as a brilliant character actor. Even in his fat suit, he has an easy command of the stage, preening and prancing with joy. Extra points for hitting a long high note in his showstopping A Gift for Living Well with a large, live rat crawling around his neck. As Marian, Maria Friedman is appropriately plucky and anguished. The other women are less memorable. As the title character, Angela Christian is saddled with an irritating, hard-to-decipher accent. It's hard to be eerie when you're singing, "I be raaht oopset!" Audience members who feel the same...
...herself from her fourth-story apartment, having lost the will to write. For someone who has never wanted to be anything but a writer - a brief career in door-to-door brush sales came to naught - that's a terrible predicament. Compounding matters was the slipped disc in her neck. "I was in constant physical pain for about three years. It's annoying and very tiring and it makes you very bad-tempered," and, she says, may explain her reputation as a prickly interview. What broke her suicidal spell that day was the sound from a neighboring flat...
...most of the 2003 season on the sidelines confined to a wheelchair. Stricken with multiple chemical sensitivity after exposure to toxins at a construction site more than a year before, by the beginning of the season Allen was unable to walk unaided and eventually lost all mobility below the neck. Despite his debilitating condition, Allen remained at the position he had held since 1996, fighting simultaneously for his own health and his struggling Holy Cross team...
...Vertus and Leclerc Briant in Epernay. Pascal Leclerc Briant has an eccentric flair as well as an ability to make beautiful champagnes. If you inquire ahead (see www.leclercbriant.com), for a smallish fee you can learn to saber a champagne bottle. Holding the thick sword on the bottle's neck, I didn't think I could do it. But I shouted like a little kid when I sliced off the bottle's top in one fell swoop. There's something about the region that helps everyone's bubbles rise to the surface...