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...like many a Christmas package, Crimes of the Heart neglects to deliver the goods. Once a comedy, it has now become a sad-sack elegy. The events that Henley and her cast pumped life into on Broadway have lost their juice. What went wrong? Is it that the intimate conversations, the teasings of Southern- gothic catastrophes, the colloquial bitchery ("She was known all over Copiah County as cheap Christmas trash"), the climactic conciliations -- all of which seemed fresh, if not downright impudent onstage -- play smug and stilted on the big screen? Or has something precious been lost? When does...
...tested the harness, the sleigh and the sack...
...that sits atop a raised brick platform as though it were on a stage. The piece bears the title of one of Houdini's most famous tricks: Metamorphosis. Re-enacted time after time, the routine by now is familiar. The magician's assistant is handcuffed and placed in a sack, which is tied and put into a trunk. The trunk is in turn secured with locks and chains. The magician, standing atop the trunk, briefly raises a curtain. Abracadabra. Suddenly, the magician's assistant stands in the place of the magician -- and when the trunk is unlocked...
...Garcin, the dead Inez has retained her latter tendencies. Misanthrope that she is, Inez, in turn, finds herself attracted to the baby-killer Estelle, a vacuous, fallen debutante who wishes Hell had mirrors. And, completing the triangle, poor little rich Estelle would just love to jump in the sack with Garcin...
...woods, Albert Gadwah, 79, showed up wearing a brand- new red shirt, size extra large. "I never had a bit of a problem with those boys," he said. Raymond White, 58, from Guildhall, Vt., seemed too young to have memories of Camp Stark. But he had come carrying a sack full of old photos, looking for a friend. He found him too: Clauss, who had translated for the local priest when White had been an altar boy at St. Francis Church...