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Geraldine Ferraro was head and shoulders above George Bush in the vice-presidential debate [NATION, Oct. 22]. She was always in control. He came off as agitated, high-strung, faltering and angry when any viewpoint but his was expressed...
MARRIED. Gilda Radner, 38, high-strung, quirky comedian who skittered from Saturday Night Live to films, most recently The Woman in Red; and her co-star in that film, Gene Wilder, 49, frizzy-haired actor, writer and director who specializes in playing jumpy, self-deprecating shlemiels; she for the second time, he for the third; in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, a tiny hilltop village in southern France. The quiet wedding was limited to a few guests. Noted Wilder: "The world is becoming a giant McDonald's stand, and it's nice to find a quiet village, 900 years...
...high-strung baby boomers have mostly passed 30 and are trotting toward 40: they have chosen careers, settled down, married, stabilized. Families and mortgages act as ballast. Furthermore, such a fresh, burgeoning stake in the future naturally fosters hope for the future. In political terms, a concern for the next century can turn right or left, toward economic conservatism, for instance, or toward a special determination to avoid nuclear war. Or up, into sheer ambition. Says Yippie turned Yuppie Jerry Rubin: "People are very patriotic. I'm much more pro-American than I have ever been in my life...
Angels Fall offers up some provocative moral questions and even takes steps toward answering them. Yet because the playwright bites off more than he can chew, the play is little more than a series of hackneyed lectures strung together by an essentially uninspired cast. Wilson and company might have done better to spend less time looking for answers, and devoted more time to hunting down a good editor instead...
Stage-managing the zoo-parade is a strung-out addict named Dopey (Gary Sinise), who looks and acts like a guerrilla refugee from the Twilight Zone. Sinise is one of the founders of Steppenwolf, an admirable community of switch-hitting theater folk in business for a decade and lately receiving wider acclaim for their Manhattan transfers of Sam Shepard's True West and C.P. Taylor's And a Nightingale Sang ... The director of Balm in Gilead is John Malkovich, who now seems on the springboard to stardom with his roles in Broadway's Death of a Salesman...