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...Just Desserts--sporadically, that is. A brilliantly funny sketch like the one featuring Pilar Pittas as a "Valley Girl" crab will often be followed by an awkward scene that just doesn't work. Just Desserts is not a play, but rather a string of scenes of unequal strength. Like a stand of beads, this string occasionally breaks and director Koury needs to do some re-cringing before her show will be the little gem it could...
...polo Gallery and the official designation of a square, dominated by a huge Miró ceramic mural, as Plaza Joan Miró. "This signifies recognition of a lifetime's hard, sincere, steady work," exulted the spry octogenarian. "Yes," sighed his wife, Doña Pilar Juncosa, "if only now he would slow down...
Mira Nair as Creon's wife Pilar also gives Antigona plenty to react to. Vain, evil and ambitious, Nair survives what must be poorly translated lines with the proper doses of viper and Eva Peron...
...After retired Army General Omar Actis was murdered by terrorists two months ago, the bodies of 30 suspected guerrillas were found near the town of Pilar in Buenos Aires province. Residents of the area said they had heard shooting and an explosion in the night. The bodies had all been dynamited, apparently to hamper identification. The government promised "an exhaustive and profound investigation," but nothing has happened...
...clearly was hooked. At Finca Vigia, Hemingway's "charming ruin" of a house in Cuba, she typed his manuscripts, answered letters, checked receipts, and ran a household that numbered four gardeners, a cook, a butler, a maid, a chauffeur (not to mention the dogs and cats). On the Pilar, Hemingway's beloved 38-ft. yacht, she was his fishing buddy. Everywhere-in the bullfight arenas of Spain, on safari in Africa, at Toots Shor's celebrity saloon in Manhattan-she was audience to an endless cycle of war stories and constant repetitions of his philosophies and jokes...