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...Even so, Nelson is convinced America's black citizens are their own worst enemy. "There is nothing much lower our community could get into," he says, then ticks off the problems: drive-by shootings, children killing children, people poisoning themselves on drugs. "I don't think we in the community have come to grips with this," he says. Yet Nelson is an optimist. He believes in his fellow African Americans. "I know how great we can be." He adds, "This is a great nation, but this could be a greater nation if we could only live up to the charter...
Winnie Mandela's playing hard to get rid of. In papers filed in court, she claims her marriage to Nelson Mandela could be saved by traditional African reconciliation procedures, which involve meetings with their extended families. But as Mr. Mandela doesn't seem to want a rapprochement, she seeks half his assets...
Elvis makes his appearance in Steve Martin's new play Picasso at the Lapin Agile, recently arrived off-Broadway after stints in Chicago and Los Angeles. The setting is a bar in Paris. The year is 1904. The chief protagonists are the young Albert Einstein (played by Mark Nelson) and the young Pablo Picasso (Tim Hopper), both of whom stand on the threshold of international fame. The source of the confusion--the reason why Elvis (Gabriel Macht) emerges as a beacon of light--isn't the heady intellectuality of this conjunction of trailblazers but an uncertainty of styles; the play...
...ditsy ingenue. As the wife of the bar's proprietor, Rondi Reed declaims, but does not convey, the pathos of a woman who bleakly sees through the egotism of much male solicitude. Hopper makes a sweet Picasso: you can believe he painted harlequins but not minotaurs. Most satisfying is Nelson as Einstein; a diminutive figure, he expresses something of an atom's compacted, ferocious potential energy...
...Vaclav Havel of the Czech Republic to his right. In the fifth row, Yasser Arafat (just below the "50" banner) was placed near Yitzhak Rabin of Israel--Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia, on Arafat's left, separated them. To Rabin's right was Tomiichi Murayama, the Prime Minister of Japan. Nelson Mandela (second row, second from left) wore dark glasses. One of the tiniest countries in the world, San Marino, was represented by two Presidents, Pier Natalino Mularoni and Marino Venturini, who stood in the second row behind Yeltsin...