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...best known for the zippy romance Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (which became a movie with Michelle Pfeiffer and Al Pacino) and the funny-poignant Lips Together, Teeth Apart (which is now playing in Los Angeles). Among his dozens of plays are daft farces (The Ritz, Bad Habits), an Emmy-winning TV play (Andre's Mother) and a clever sitcom (Mama Malone), but nothing so eloquent, capacious and true as A Perfect Ganesh...
...shower of awards including a Tony; his AIDS teleplay, Andre's Mother, won an Emmy; his domestic tragicomedy, Lips Together, Teeth Apart, has been a hit on both coasts, and Frankie and Johnny became a movie with Al Pacino and Michelle Pfeiffer. In his early hits Next and The Ritz, McNally revealed his fevered comic sense, satiric wit, robust skepticism toward authority and matter-of-fact agenda of including homosexuals in stories not "about" their world. All those are evident in A Perfect Ganesh, which is anything but an attempt to cash in on his sudden commercial appeal. There...
Most of the honorands arrived in Cambridge this week. They stayed at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Boston and dined last night in Memorial Hall on grilled tuna with a savory carrot puree and fresh asparagus...
...greed goes on. When the baseball diamond is as big as the Ritz, the real game will not be played between the foul lines. It will be conducted in boardrooms and back rooms, on the field of schemes. Franchise swapping will be the richest established permanent floating crap game in the business world. It's a no-lose game called Monopoly. And few of the players care that it means winning ugly...
...could handle room service for two weeks. I wouldn't mind maid service, either. And hotels usually have jacuzzis and mints-on-the-pillows and helpful, friendly staffs. None of that would be so bad. There's no place like home, but if it were like the Ritz, that would be cool...