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...Musical. The songs are by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty (Ragtime). Frank Galati, who won two Tony awards for The Grapes of Wrath, is the director; and Kathleen Marshall, who choreographed Kiss Me, Kate and many of the enthralling Encores! musical revivals, is in charge of the dancing. David Shiner, the Cirque du Soleil veteran who shone on Broadway with Bill Irwin in Fool Moon, will play the Cat in the Hat, who serves as the show's narrator. If the new show resembles any Broadway standard, it would be a certain feline adaptation of T.S. Eliot's poems...
...says Frank, "you had to drive to a naval base, get past two security checkpoints in order to sneak into a party in a giant warehouse." Says Goldstein: "Mitch and I were at a Texas-style BBQ party paid for by mining, gas and nuclear companies featuring tubs of Shiner Bock beer until a congressional aide tossed us out." All of Philadelphia was a party--and it was difficult not to stumble over famous feet. Says Frank: "Richard Roundtree--the original Shaft--sat on the couch watching John McCain at the podium. I spoke to Trent Lott, Jerry Falwell...
...ineffectual threats. The economic situation in Peru is delicate. Although Fujimori was able to reduce national hyperinflation in 1990 to the current 3.7 percent, it came at the price of huge unemployment--over half the nation's working-age population lacks a steady job. Toledo, a shoe shiner who later trained as an economist at Harvard, has been able to gain popular support by focusing on the nation's impoverished masses. Such sanctions would seriously undercut Fujimori's already dwindling support base...
...deviant sexual conduct and abuse of power. His forced resignation from the Senate on ethical charges should not have taken so long [THE SENATE, Sept. 18]. Packwood no more deserves the rewards of being an ex-Senator than his victims deserved to be accosted by him. LAURIE JANAK MAREK Shiner, Texas...
...Stavros gets a job shining shoes at Grand Central Terminal. It is the last scene of Elia Kazan's film America, America, the story of a young Greek's fierce determination to immigrate to America. Quickly, but as casually as an afterthought, a young black man, also a shoe shiner, enters and tries to solicit a customer. He is run off the screen -- "Get out of here! We're doing business here!" -- and silently disappears...