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...SLEUTH...
...suspense and humor wane only when Sleuth's ambitious author. Anthony Shaffer, overshoots his thematic boundaries. Shaffer tries to make Sleuth a philosophical discussion of conflicting honesty and fantasy in his characters' self-images, but this serious speculation is distinctly out of place. At its best, from the writings of Arthur Conan Doyle to Agatha Christie, the genre has recounted imaginary adventures of imaginary people, largely, ignoring the problems of real life. Fortunately the play's simplistic message about seeing ourselves as we really are rarely interferes with the progress from clue to clue...
COLONIAL THEATER. Sleuth at 7:30, mats. Thurs...
SHUBERT THEATRE. Sleuth at 7:30, mats...
...American West of the 1870s, nonviolent but ready to zap troublemakers with the self-defense art of kung fu. The title character of NBC's Banacek (one of three rotating shows in the NBC Wednesday Mystery Movie) is not only a rugged insurance sleuth but also a walking lightning rod for Polish jokes...