Word: shalhoub
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Kustow has chosen to stage this at a long table at the front of the stage, keeping our interest with visual mayhem but accentuating the fragmentary nature of the dialogue. Stephen Rowe and Tony Shalhoub, as Joe and Wes, try mightily to keep things going, but with little success. Some awkward pace changes contribute to the difficulty, and the act sags until Frederick Neumann, as the John Huston-like director John Bean, takes things over. Neumann shines as the horny, hearty old American ("It's a simple name--I am a simple man.") whose vision of the revolution comprises mostly...
...hustler--he uses a gurgling accent that sounds like the rapid pour of a bottle of bourbon. Thomas Derrah takes off brilliantly with a comic interpolation of Richard III--it is this sort of magical appearance of the impossible that makes Lulu so consistently interesting and amusing. Tony Shalhoub is chilling in his flat, langourous portrayal of a pimp, although not as chilling as Harry Murphy, who comes straight out of a John Carpenter movie...
Omar's dazzling teeth are his own, but his name is not. He is actually Maechel Shalhoub. Years ago, planning ahead toward international fame, he guessed correctly that to Western ears there was no chic-of-Araby in the sound of Shalhoub. He thought, he says, of Omar Khayyam and Omar Bradley, both familiar names several thousand miles west. He may also have thought of Matt Dillon and Gary Cooper. At any rate, he entered his profession as Omar Sharif...