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...actors revel in this atmosphere. Says Beverly D'Angelo, who plays a shrieking witch in Sleeping Beauty: "Every actor is a child, and what Shelley has basically done is build a playpen where we can go in and use words and just play." For Reeve, the experience was liberating: "You get back the sense of fun in acting, the feeling you had doing a school play like The Skin of Our Teeth, when you stayed afterward painting scenery...
...There is nothing to be afraid of, and never was." Now, in the Age of Herpes, Playboy employees jokingly refer to the swimming facilities at Hugh Hefner's Los Angeles mansion as "the herpes pool." A Manhattan resident who had always longed to disport himself at a sexual playpen called Plato's Retreat now says he will go only if he can wear a full-length wet suit. Flesh Merchant Al Goldstein, editor of Screw magazine, says glumly, "It may be there is a god in heaven carving out his pound of flesh for all our joys...
...stick and Litchfield's legal check became a wooden choker for Sampson. Never mind that calls like that aren't supposed to happen on home ice or that nobody ever calls that one a major. Litchfield was whistled off for a five-minute stint in Darryl Petit's favorite playpen, and when he came back, Harvard's 2-1 lead had become a 3-2 deficit...
...investigations unearthed at least two other examples of banking abuse by Wells Fargo officials, raising questions about just how effective the bank's oversight practices are. So Cooley decided last week to assert that the nation's eleventh largest bank had not become an embezzler's playpen. He sent a letter to the bank's 15,000 employees, detailing what has been learned of the scam, and started talking to newsmen. Said he: "It appears that some of our policies were laxly controlled. But I guarantee you that there will be greater emphasis on operational controls...
...writer is Capote himself, of course, a weird little man who has taken his floppy hats, bald chin and rat's voice and escaped his chic playpen. He has returned to America's dusty trails, where his eyes are accustomed to the darkness and his complexion can bear the heat...