Word: paramour
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Both LuPone and her London paramour Kevin Anderson seemed miscast. In fairness, LuPone would fare much better in the Los Angeles version. She is a skilled comic actress with an innate instinct for emotional excess. But in an ongoing dispute over who will play the role on Broadway, Close has three big advantages. She is physically much more plausible as a legendarily beautiful face. She approaches the role as a dramatic experience rather than as scenes leading up to show-stopper songs. Most important, she uncorks an almost slapstick comic inventiveness...
...Merman's ghost, either in vocal inflections or in her movements, which are occasionally as corseted and semaphoric as the Merm's. Yet for the most part, Midler makes the role her own. She conveys much less anger than most predecessors, and rather more romance. Her relationship with manager-paramour Herbie (Peter Riegert) is convincingly sexy, which atones for the mediocrity of Riegert's singing. In contrast to the battleship that Daly made of the role, Midler is devastated, almost fragile, when her younger daughter June elopes and breaks up the family vaudeville...
Under present law Charles and Diana would have to remain separated for another year before they could divorce -- but the government could probably massage the laws if it chose. Gossip meister Nigel Dempster reported last month that Prince Charles had promised to marry his paramour, Camilla Parker- Bowles -- which would depend not only on the Prince's being free but also on Camilla's divorcing her Catholic husband. At the same time, Dempster also suggested that Diana was still hoping for a reconciliation with the man who, in one secretly recorded exchange, expressed his wish to be reincarnated...
Lisa was so enthralled with her bulletin-board lover that she decided to move on to what WELL users call an F2F -- a face-to-face. She agreed to split the cost of a plane ticket to fly her telephonic paramour to the West Coast. "We had a great weekend," she says, "including fabulous sex." But afterwards her lover turned cold, and the e-mail correspondence dissolved. A heartbroken Lisa grieved on a section of the network called WOW (Women on the WELL) -- where no men are allowed. And that is how she met Beth and Nancy and discovered that...
...second mistake was to have Peters, so good at winsome vulnerability, play a character so hard and snarly. From the opening number, in which she rages at being abandoned by a live-in boyfriend, to the contrived quarrel with her new paramour a few moments before the finale, her angst always outshouts her charm. A third goof was to have Short start out really neurotic, as Richard Dreyfuss was in his Oscar-winning film portrayal, but turn into Caspar Milquetoast (or Ed Grimley) within minutes. The domestic frictions that made the film funny simply disappear...