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...one-man team--both lyricist and composer--he's likewise a nonpareil. More than the other great Broadway composers, he produces songs that are both detachable and undetachable from the shows they appear in. Detachable because his lyrics are, in their wit and dexterity, satisfyingly autonomous; they appear in anthologies of light verse and books of contemporary poetry. Undetachable because his songs, usually integrated tightly into the plot line, often lose resonance on their own. It's no accident that Sondheim has originated only one tune--Send in the Clowns--that can be sure of raising a roar of recognition...
...mere existence is enough to wow any audience. He presents the situations plaguing him with very little insight. As he talks about black gay men not being attracted to black gay men, or dramatizes a rape that he had experienced, he lapses into the most disastrous pitfall of a one-man show: self-indulgence...
Last year in the World Cup, the U.S. also lost to the Brazilians 1-0, using many of the same players. But under then coach Bora Milutinovic, the Americans were simply trying to avoid embarrassment, playing defensive soccer even when they had a one-man advantage. In April, Milutinovic was relieved of his duties by the U.S. Soccer Federation, leaving the team in the hands of assistant coach Steve Sampson until a high-profile coach with international experience could be found. Among those who were approached with a $300,000 salary offer was Parreira, but he turned it down...
...ONE: 1:30 a.m. British loveboat and one-man charm school HUGH GRANT, for reasons best kept to himself, visits the seediest stretch of Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood and invites working girl DIVINE BROWN a.k.a. Pancake a.k.a. Stella Marie Thompson into his rented BMW. They strike a deal that entails his giving her, among other things, $45. At about 1:45 a.m. the local constabulary interrupts. "I did something completely insane," says Grant later. Around the world, people agree. Day's Big Rumor: Brown...
...quality this year is as uneven as it was under the Menotti regime -- ranging from the spectacular (Irish actor Barry McGovern in I'll Go On, a mordant one-man show derived from three novels by Samuel Beckett) to the mediocre (Hans Werner Henze's tired exercise in late-'50s avant-gardism, Der Prinz von Homburg) to the risible (the washed-up soprano Renata Scotto singing the role of the Marschallin in Richard Strauss's opera Der Rosenkavalier). Still, Spoleto seems on course to become one of the nation's most important and enjoyable arts events...