Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Elizabeth A. Tomlinson '99 volunteers through PBH as a big sister to a ten-year-old girl named Jessica...
...always a problem for Sapir, who is 70 and lives in one room of a genteelly fading three-story house in Queens, New York. She was, she recalls, "a child of privilege" in Warsaw, where her father Jozef owned an investment bank. She and her brother and sister attended private schools, and the family traveled to the great European resorts for bathing in the summer and skiing in the winter. To ensure the family's future in uncertain times, Jozef Sapir regularly deposited his profits in banks in Switzerland, $30,000 to $40,000 at a time. "He trusted them...
...program as "Ichabod Crane"), a schlumpy former grad student, is stuck in his childhood home in New Orleans because his selfish siblings refuse to help him take care of their ailing mother. Scott (Jason Chaffin), the older brother, is a smug, cold yuppie; Jane (Sarah Yellen), the sister, is a cruel harpy masquerading as a p.c. environmentalist. Poor old Mom, played by the usually effervescent Shar von Boskirk, has nothing to do but sit center-stage for the duration of the play, gurgling and babbling unconvincingly. Those who saw her in last year's West Side Story might have yearned...
...rate. Credit should also be granted to the care taken to make the play's grotesques truly grotesque: LBJ is represented as a disembodied head atop a glob of what looks like ground beef and pasta that is rolled onto the stage in a wheelbarrow; Lee Radziwell (Jackie's sister) as a child is shown as a three-foot-tall (gnomish) creature wearing a straw hat and a cardboard baby doll dress; Hugh Auchincloss is completely inanimate as a wrinkly amorphous head with a bodyless suit dangled below...
...three are cheerleaders to depressive Mike (Favreau), an actor-comedian who is having trouble getting over a fizzled affair. Six months later, he's still miserable and can't stop talking about it. Each buddy has to be Mike's personal shrink; every potential date becomes his antsy big sister. He can't follow the rules of romantic pursuit. You're not supposed to call someone you've just met until two days have passed; it's uncool. Yet after getting a promising phone number, he rushes home to leave a voice message, half a dozen times, becoming more agitated...