Word: suppers
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...that is all the setup that accompanies Joey and Maria’s Comedy Italian Wedding, the long running dinner-theater spectacle which reopened last month at downtown Boston’s Tremont Playhouse. And although its sister production, The Soprano’s Last Supper, mines much the same material for laughs, each show manages to stand on its own and win laughs as a thorough and tremendously funny send-up of, and tribute to, the absurd pop culture depiction of Italian-Americans...
...same can often be said of The Soprano’s Last Supper, a similar show which focuses its energies more narrowly on satirizing the pervasive connection made between the Italian-American community and the mafia. The Soprano’s Last Supper is a meeting of prominent crime families, á la The Godfather, who must reconfigure the balance of power now that Tony, the patriarch of the Baritone family (get it? Sopranos? Baritones? Well, it’s a bit over the characters heads), is being sent up the river. The show gets off to a slow start...
COLIN POWELL On eve of his visit, China coughs up two "convicted spies." Maybe he threatened to sing for supper...
...heart," she says. Her concept of evil is less abstract than David's. The Bible is replete with instances in which "Jesus may not be the author of evil, but He permitted it [for reasons of His own]," she notes. She recalls His telling Peter after the Last Supper that Satan has asked "to sift you like wheat," a metaphor suggesting agony...
...managers in return for airplay. It ended the career of Alan Freed, the man credited with applying the black sexual term rock-and-roll to jump music. (By the way, that's a lie; the phrase goes back much earlier than Freed. In the 1941 film "Swing for Your Supper" young Dorothy Dandridge sings of her musical education: "They made me rock 'n roll ... brought me up on good ol' rhythmatic.") Freed had been his own worst witness, confronting the committee, contradicting himself under oath. Clark - who had become a millionaire by investing in 33 music-related businesses...