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...live at home. "More time," however, is a relative term. Lipinski's days are filled with promotional appearances at department stores and malls (even before the Olympics she had scored deals with DKNY and Mattel); her nights are filled with fund-raising galas and movie premieres. In her rare spare time, she tools around her home state of Texas in the black Corvette she got as part of her deal with autoweb.com Fans can keep up at taralipinski.com where her online diary--"I'll be in Dallas Sunday for Snapple"--gives one a fairly vivid and unintentionally depressing sense...
...charges, whispers and gags true? Hardly matters; they need only be entertaining. Star tattle proceeds from two American impulses: cynicism and sentimentality. Sentimentally we imagine that a popular artist must have hidden depths. Cynically we suspect that every star must have a guilty secret; all that power, money and spare time allow them to act out any sick whim. Gossip has become the purest form of show biz, a story that can be as short as a gerbil joke or as epic as the Monica Follies. It attaches itself to any prominent person, no matter how conventional or innocent...
...opposite Jericho," recounts the Bible. And then, "Moses the servant of the Lord died there at the command of the Lord. He [God] buried him in the valley in the land of Moab, near Beth-peor; and no one knows his burial place to this day." There follows this spare but eloquent elegy. "Never again did there arise in Israel a prophet like Moses--whom the Lord singled out, face to face...
...script of Talking With looks spare. It is a series of 11 monologues narrated by 11 women--eleven vibrant and madly insightful crazies, characters impossible to ignore or forget. The script looks like a treasure trove for talented actresses in search of audition monologues, but the monologues, strung across the pages of a script look only like the rants of 11 disembodied voices. Such a script does not promise to showcase directorial brilliance...
...choreography was spare; the dancers slinked around the stage, standing in small groups in the back, taking turns dancing carefree yet elegant solos frontstage. Even while standing at the back of the stage, the talented dancers maintained a powerfully cool presence. It was a pleasure to see the ballet dancers carry off modern choreography without a hint of stiffness but with all the smoothness and grace of a Tchaikovsky routine...