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NEAR THE END OF HIS DRAMA about an actual 19th century black stage troupe that briefly competed with Junius Brutus Booth, sire of the estimable Booth acting | clan, Carlyle Brown makes clear that much of his interest in the story is its pertinence to the multiculturalism debates of today. The African Company of 1820s New York City was, he recounts, harassed and shut down by white authorities who resented its ambition, feared its competition with white theaters (as when the Africans' Richard III was to play opposite Booth's version of the same play) and recoiled from the notion that...
Last week more people were trying to shut him down. A group of law- enforcement officials in Texas called for a boycott of Time Warner, the parent company of his record label, Sire (and of TIME) because of one of his recent tracks, Cop Killer ("I'm 'bout to bust some shots off/ I'm 'bout to dust some cops off"). Said Doug Elder, president of the Houston Police Officers Association: "You mix this with the summer, the violence and a little drugs, and they are going to unleash a reign of terror on communities all across this country...
...director Polly Hogan exploits it by having the actors traverse across and around it. During a scene when Manders remarks about the resemblance between father and son, he, Oswald, and a portrait of Mr. Alving fall into line to highlight that Oswald has inherited the countenance of his sire. Contrarily, his mother had hoped that her son would inherit nothing from a father who led a dissolute life...
...golden womb," says Carrie. People like Lucille Ball and Jimmy Stewart used to come for dinner. Candice Bergen was always at their house because her best friend was the family baby-sitter. Unfortunately, father Eddie just barely had time to bequeath his eyes and voice to Carrie and sire her brother Todd before he gallivanted off with famous film fatale Elizabeth Taylor. The whole affair ended badly and publicly. As her legacy from the broken fairy-tale family, Carrie got a wounded heart and an emotional predilection for "short Jewish men -- preferably musicians." Eddie's parental abdication left the kids...
...even sarcastic they, and the other players, are being. The actors in The Frog Prince are playful--they take things less seriously than many audience members would expect. The prince, for example, is rightfully dubious when his servant tells him that he and his beloved fiancee are universally loved. "Sire," the servant says, "the people love her as yourself," and the prince rolls his eyes...