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...good financial books explain, one's earning capacity is not at its peak. So for ARCELI KEH, better known to most people as the Woman Who Had a Baby at 63, the obvious way to put aside a little nest egg for her daughter was to sell her story, complete with interview, home videos and family snapshots. After a quick but brutal media race, the National Enquirer emerged victorious, handing over a six-figure sum to the Keh family, who told the magazine they would like to have another child. Then, after the dust had cleared, a new bidding...
Reina Aguero fixes electrical wires in Fidel Castro's Cuba, while living with the "remnants of a bird's nest" in the chandelier of her decaying house; Constancia Aguero Cruz basks in affluent loneliness in Key Biscayne, Fla., where Cuban songs play "slow as regret, on the afternoon radio." Constancia wears Adolfo suits as she drives her pink Cadillac to the factory she owns; Reina sashays braless among the mahogany trees. Yet though they live on opposite sides of the revolution, both Aguero sisters share something deep as blood: a matter-of-fact commitment to the magic of their island...
...passion long ago. The play's main themes have by this time been clearly laid out: Sex and love, home and banishment and living with--or escaping from--one's past. The second act enlarges on those themes, bringing the players into a new setting--the Cozy Nest, a gay bar opened by Chief Yang--and introduces a new character, Papa Fu (Carsey Yee), an elderly philanthropist with dubious motives. The revelations which Papa Fu will unfold to Hawk prove to be the symbolic heart of the play...
This work is very much a study in character and memory, as opposed to an action-based piece, and as such tends to feel highly literary. Its central metaphor has to do with birds and nests: the young hustlers, little birds buffeted by the winds of a world that scorns and rejects them, must always eventually come flying back to their place of acceptance--New Park, or the "Cozy Nest" that cradles them...
...many crew members are focusing on improving overall industry conditions by curtailing hours. In a campaign prompted by Hershman's death, Haskell Wexler, a renowned cinematographer (One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest), is leading a petition drive to impose a 14-hour workday. "People are working as zombies," he says. Among those who have signed are Julia Roberts, Kenneth Branagh, Mike Nichols, Sally Field and Harold Ramis...