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...Birthday Party opens with a typical breakfast for the Boleses, mild-mannered Petey (Joseph A. Nuccio '00) and effusive Meg (Erica Rabbit '00). All's more or less cornflakes and skittles, even for the laterising nowhere-man boarder Stanley Webber (Dominic Doyle), until two visitors arrive. Up to no good, these two, Goldberg (Jonathon Heawood) and flunky McCann (Henry Clarke '00), apparently have some history they'd like to clear up with dear Stanley--exactly what, we don't know...
...turns out well, we never really should know. When Stanley staggers about on-stage in ratty pajamas with no good explanation for why he's there--no helpful "Thanks for putting me up here while I am on my way to Shropshire-on-Blandings," say--we're most interested. When we see good Meg, who seems most unfortunately to be addicted to helium shots, pipe away at the calm, turtle-like Petey about fried toast, we want to know how on earth these two came together...
...kind of person who's slightly obsessive about my favorite artists. I scan newspapers, magazines and whatever else I can get my hands on for even the most esoteric scraps of information. Stanley Kubrick is tossing around the idea of moving back to the United States? Eddie Vedder got a new cat? Even though I keep my ear to the ground, I have the peculiar habit of going into bookstore and record stores for the sole purpose of scanning the titles of my favorite artists and authors. Even when I know damn well that a new work isn't coming...
...Stanley H. Hoffman, Dillon professor of the civilization of France, spoke in favor of the creation of the Committee on Degrees in Women's Studies at the Faculty Council meeting...
Also gone this year is Stanley Tucci's viciously charismatic villain Richard Cross, who died from AIDS in last season's final episode. The shady character in the current case is played, against type, by The Waltons dad Ralph Waite. With none of the digressions and subplots that burdened Murder One early on last year, the show moves along at a perfectly clipped pace. In the second episode this week, Rooney is already in court and standing trial...