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Admirably, the star-studded version that opened in New York City's Central Park last week solves the problem in a subtler way: by transposing the action to the Wild West of frontier days. The "Padua" of swinging-door saloons and semicorrupt sheriffs is recognizably not of our era, yet...
One can grasp the distinction by looking out from any one of a thousand promontories in the Northwest. Clear-cutting -- the indiscriminate leveling of every tree in an area -- has left the wilderness fragmented and scarred. Long after the last truck has pulled out, heavy with logs, and the debris...
He dresses in a rhinestone-studded leather jacket, fills his routines with obscenities and has offended more people than any other stand-up comic since Lenny Bruce. The perfect guest host for NBC's cutting-edge comedy series Saturday Night Live? Well, Andrew Dice Clay may have looked good on...
Or on Andrew Dice Clay's mouth. A few years ago, Clay was playing small clubs and working as a supporting actor. Now he is poised between stand-up and stardom. He is top-lining in two summer movies, one a comedy concert film, the other a detective spoof called...
Wiesenthal's new editorial collaborators do not serve his purposes well. Instead of benefiting from Wechsberg's competent prose, this new autobiography has been translated from the German by Ewald Osers, and it is studded with Anglicisms like lorries, plimsolls, doing a bunk and getting the stick. And though the...