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Most of the actors in Nothing On are so temperamental that the audience laughs as Dallas struggles hopelessly to take charge of his company. Sara Melson, who plays Brooke Ashton, who plays bimbo Vicki, stands out as the stereotypical half-brain-dead sexpot actress. Melson's over-exaggerated hand gestures, when she is Vicki, and her overly self-conscious, seductive walk as Brooke are amusing...
...says I, "I bet Mike Dukakis wishes our boy Ron could get involved with some pretty young sexpot...
...There Any More Real Cowboys," the duet with Nelson, marks the biggest wasted opportunity since the parents of the sexpot next door went on vacation and you caught the flu. After a klunky key change halfway through, Neil and Willie join in alleged unison, and their quavery, out-of-pitch voices--so endearing separately--make as attractive a combination as fingernail and blackboard...
Luminous earlier this year in Serenading Louie and Other Places, Wiest is still no sexpot, no Marilyn; truth to tell, Langella is prettier than she is. More over, she affects a wispy giggle that mimics Monroe and every little girl lost from Susan Alexander Kane to Judy Garland. Yet Wiest has managed to bleach the intelligence out of her face, leaving only a cunning child with the look of a battered seraph. This is no flesh-and-blood performance; it is pure, chilling marrow. Emotional striptease is what such acting is all about. But perhaps not play writing...
...better in the bestseller section. Check out Jane Fonda's Workout Book, for instance. From sexpot to anti-war activist to movie star to mother to avid jogger who exercises "until I am dripping with sweat," Jane here leads her troops through arm stretches, back leg extensions and more...