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...when you want to rough him up a little for being too smarmy, and not nearly charming enough--but still manages a strong performance. And honors for a show-stopping effort go to Jim O'Brien, who brings to the part of Bud Frump--the boss's maddeningly wimpish nephew--not only an impressive comic flair, but also the best singing voice in the cast. O'Brien's clear, powerful solos in "Coffee Break" and "Gotta Stop That Man," the two best-staged production numbers, do full justice to Loesser's music...
Filipczak, whose husband is the pontiff's nephew, was in Rome for the installation Mass two weeks ago. She attended a private audience in the Vatican the following Tuesday...
...Italian Popes of the 15th century were both members of Spain's notorious Borgia family. Alonso de Borgia, elected as Callistus III (1455-58), made the papacy a family affair. So did his nephew Rodrigo, who became Alexander VI in 1492 and named four nephews, as well as his illegitimate son Cesare, Cardinals. In 1503, both father and son fell gravely ill. Alexander died after a week's illness; Cesare survived. It is widely thought that the two master poisoners accidentally partook of the poisoned beverage that they had intended for a rival Cardinal...
...Brown, the Atlantic City Press's Mr. Action, called in the city's most respected roofer to examine a shoddy roof job that a reader complained about, and found himself in the middle of a family squabble. The job had been done by the roofer's nephew. "You can quote me on this," the elder man told Brown, who did just that. "The kid is incompetent. He doesn't know what he is doing...
...nephew of a murdered uncle, the "uncivilized" responses are still present within me: my soul cries out for vengeance...