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...Brooks, as always, must show up, which is rather unfortunate because he is about as funny as lung cancer. He plays Rabbi Tuckman, a Friar Tuck stand-in who acts as master of circumcision with the slogan "Circumcision: Half-off". (Ouch!) His strong (only?) point is gratuitous penis humor, used so that the kids in the audience, who should be seeing "Snow White," would get a chuckle. Some people, such as Brooks, should not direct and act at the same time--nor, for that matter, should we let them do either separately...
...showiest piece and ultimately the most moving is Kramer's tussle between hope and despair in Destiny. It is enriching, but not necessary, to know that the work is autobiographical and that its passion-spent central character, Ned Weeks, is a stand-in for the author, who co-founded Gay Men's Health Crisis and the more radical ACT UP only to leave each in disappointment at their failure to save lives, not least, prospectively, his own. Ned is as hilariously self-congratulatory and self-critical as he was in the Kramer play that introduced him, The Normal Heart...
Third-party candidates often stumble badly in their quest for a plausible No. 2. Remember General Curtis ("Bomb Them Back to the Stone Age") LeMay, George Wallace's 1968 ticket mate? Perot has already tapped retired Admiral James Stockdale, a conservative former Vietnam pow, as his stand-in running mate to get on the ballot in all 50 states. Perot calls Stockdale his "fail- safe fallback" and has said that he will, if necessary, "just go with the team we have...
...Rick figure this time is Jack Weil (Robert Redford), a professional poker player aware that people tend to throw caution (and money) to the winds when their way of life is about to be radically altered. The Ilsa stand-in is Bobby Duran (Lena Olin), who lures Jack into doing a little light smuggling for her and then for the longest time resists being lured into an affair with him. Her reasons are sound: she is grief-stricken when led to believe that her husband (Raul Julia) has been murdered by the Batista regime, and she is in shock after...
...Iraqi television's ubiquitous stand-in for Saddam Hussein faced the camera with a doleful expression. "The children of Iraq," he claimed last week, "are dying because they are being deprived of their food and milk and medicine." With the U.N.-backed embargo only five weeks old, Baghdad's charge seemed extremely dubious. Diplomats in the Iraqi capital reported that despite lines at bakeries and preparations for rationing, no staples have disappeared from the shelves...