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...some-times the victims fight back. Fashion Designer Yves Saint Laurent, still smarting from slaps at his spring collection, took no chances this time. Paris' famed dress dictator displayed his fall-winter creations but barred the door to previously unfriendly viewers. Among the uninvited were Syndicated Columnist Eugenia Sheppard and various disgruntled experts from France's influential Le Monde and a leftist daily called Combat. Said the latter: "It's their fascist side. One must close one's eyes and clap, or else be punished. In general, poor sports are unsure of their talents...
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...Anything You Say Will Be Twisted, by British playwright Ken Campbell, is a perfect vehicle for the Senelick style. It is one of a long series of plays and novels, among them Gay's Beggar's Opera, derived from the life of Jack Sheppard, a young thief and ruffian of early 18-century London who became a folk hero through the British love of the scurrilous and inane. This particular version of the Sheppard legend has the hero start out as a relatively innocent carpenter's apprentice and slowly immerse himself in the ways of thievetry, lechery, and general debauchery...
POPE BROCK as Jack Sheppard is excellent. He is self-assured and at the same time suitably wide-eved and innocent. David Gullette as the Thief-Taker General scowls meanly and reads his lines with precise meter and intonation. Senelick is good at developing expert character actors; Dribbling Wilf ("a criminal mastermind of the first water"), played by E. Mackenzie, has remarkable facial control and an admirable ability to salivate. The Incredible Porty McFigg (Lawrence F. Uhl) cats glass, strangles rats with his teeth, roars and grunts and pounds in his pornography-painted chest, all with considerable glee...
...thing the play hits hardest is crass commercialism and sensationalism. Before being hung, each criminal announces that the really true and honest account of his life is available only from Applebee's, Two entrepreneurs discuss the advertising possibilities of a pair of Sheppard's pants. But this production relies not on satire but rather on slapstick and exaggerated characterization for most of its comic effect, Through gesture, expression, and phrasing, Senelick pushes his stuff up through the curtain call...