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Linda Lavin, as Mrs. Van Daan, stands out in the play's showiest role: her Mrs. Van Daan is an irrepressible chatterer, energetically discussing her flirtatious past and the superior quality of her potato latkes, but she's also worldly-wise--a popular characterization of a Jewish mother. Austin Pendleton makes Mr. Dussel both droll and sympathetic. As Otto Frank, George Hearn does come across as a caring and protective father figure, but one oddly formal with his family: his diction is too consistently calm and collected, in a situation of such tremendous pressure, to be convincing. Sophie Hayden...

Author: By Erwin R. Rosinberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Solid Production Puts Story First in Broadway-Bound `Anne Frank' | 11/7/1997 | See Source »

...film's cropping is so tight that it excludes any human involvement, and ordinary household objects become screen stars before our mesmerized eyes. A potato warrior, two kitchen knives tied to its back, plunges down a ramp and a lazy tire hops aboard a tiny wheeled cart, only to glide a little further before hitting its target. The elaborate set-up is at once a marvel of makeshift precision and comic redundancy (just imagine a wheel riding a cart!), and these moments of transcendent anthropomorphism simultaneously account for the film's humor and its morbid undercurrent. Eventually the series will...

Author: By Scott Rothkopf, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Swiss Artists Fischli and Weiss Juggle Sarcasm, Sincerity at the ICA | 11/7/1997 | See Source »

...finally, forget fast track ? get on the Couch Potato track to video entertainment. More

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Today's Top Stories | 11/7/1997 | See Source »

Call your broker and place a "fry" order with the Couch Potato Guide (TIME Daily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Today's Top Stories | 10/31/1997 | See Source »

...quick to point out that just because you're a slacker doesn't necessarily mean you're "lying in bed for six days with nothing but a six-pack of Yoo-Hoos and some potato chips...

Author: By Georgia N. Alexakis and Andrew K. Mandel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: TRUE CONFESSIONS OF A HARVARD SLACKER | 10/24/1997 | See Source »

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