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...Norman Thayer a retired professor rounding 80, Fonda plays the curmudgeon to the hilt. Thompson's script is very much in the Neil Simon mold since it is one great aggregation of one-liners, and Fonda gets the lion's share of them. The jokes are a bit softer and more countrified than Simon's bitchy repartee. but Fonda succeeds in putting enough spin on them to give the dialogue bite. His deadpan is convincing. He puckers up his chin a little and blows the quips out like a man nonchalantly shooting marbles from his mouth into a brass spittoon...
...compact 5 ft. 5½ in. and 115 Ibs. of muscle and hustle on the tennis court, Chris Evert Lloyd, 27, does have a softer side. Chris happily shucked her court gear when Glamour magazine asked her to play fashion model for its February issue. According to the magazine, the five-time U.S. Open winner favors "good travelers, versatile enough for sudden climate changes." Among the outfits that seemed to fill the bill: a $256 red silk dress by Andre Van Pier and a pair of $175 gold La Marca pumps. "Physically, I'm in better shape than when...
...hard work." Von Bülow is said to be a man of great wit and charm, but his cosmopolitan suaveness and reputed right-wing views have not appealed to all. Says one acquaintance: "He isn't a monocle popper, not a Junker type at all. He is softer, more Viennese-a real snake...
...players would have done well to turn their recruiting energies to the orchestra, which sounds regrettably soggy under Todd Ellison's direction, and the lighting, which, in Gil Ohana's design, seems to follow the rock-concert theory of brightening or dimming as the music gets louder or softer...
...suitably outlandish. Serban has ensured that there is always some action, always some source of fun. At times the production seems more like a series of auditions for sign language school. Someone is always grimacing or gesturing, crawling or running--mostly broad and loud actions, but occasionally a little softer, a bit more restrained, in a welcome counterpoint to the steady diet of high-pitched gusto...