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...COKE Keith Reddin, who was four years old during the Bay of Pigs invasion, sensitively evoked its tragicomic excesses and catastrophic outcome for Cuban exiles and American scions of privilege and for the Government they both served...
...Reddin is bringing off a rare double: while his words resound in Rum and Coke, he is onstage 20 blocks away in a manic revival of the 1930s farce Room Service, a portrait of pre-Broadway opening desperation. Reddin winningly playswhat else?--the playwright, a geeky kid from Oswego who eventually has to "die" for an hour and a half so that his show might live. Director Alan Arkin seems too conscious that Room Service was adapted as a Marx Brothers movie vehicle. Mark Hamill, the fresh-faced Luke Skywalker of the Star Wars series, is mustached and growly...
...best new play of the crop is Rum and Coke, a wry, poignant look back at the can-do optimism and patriotic naivete that led the U.S. to stumble into the Bay of Pigs invasion. Playwright Keith Reddin, 29, was a child of four when CIA-backed Cuban insurgents made their disastrous landing in 1961, but he captures with compassion and accuracy the Kennedy Administration's fundamental miscalculation: the belief in a nonexistent Cuban underground that was only waiting for a signal of support to rise up and overthrow Fidel Castro. Reddin presents the Bay of Pigs fiasco...
...Stokes, Virginia 23 68 79 86.1 18. Washington, Utah St. 24 111 129 86.0 19. Gannon, North Carolina St. 27 71 83 85.5 19. Gromoe, Pairfield 22 65 76 85.5 19. Tandy, East Tennessee 26 106 124 85.5 22. Arne Duncan, Harvard 22 70 82 85.4 22. Reddin...
...private patrols for the Los Angeles police department. "A void has been created, and private enterprise has jumped in to make a buck." The Los Angeles area alone has some 500 security companies, roughly triple the number of just three years ago. Says former Los Angeles Police Chief Tom Reddin, 67, who retired in 1969 and now runs Reddin Security Services: "Business is crazy...