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...Could Rowley's whimsical teacup hats actually catch...
...surface, that Milton Berle's wife arrived in Washington from Hollywood and asked what in the world was going on in the White House. "If all of the women who claim to have slept with Kennedy are telling the truth, he would not have strength enough to lift a teacup, let alone deal with Khrushchev." Women or not, Kennedy dealt pretty well with Khrushchev, and that may be the larger reason why Camelot will not fade away...
...Alan Ayckbourn collaborated 20 years ago on this musical about P.G. Wodehouse's unflappable butler, which was a London flop. Now, with a new book and a freshened-up score, it's back at Connecticut's Goodspeed-at-Chester theater in a charming production directed by Ayckbourn. The teacup wit and inventive, less-is-much-more staging would never survive a trip to Broadway, but resident theaters across the country should have a ball with...
...when, suddenly, Mr. Ferrars appears at the remote cottage, located just this side of destitution, where the Dashwood ladies have taken refuge. Miraculously he is free of his entanglements, free at last to diffidently declare his love for Elinor. Whereupon she bursts into tears--not just tears but great, teacup-rattling sobs, a huge, whooshing release of long-suppressed emotions, both hers and ours. You feel like crying right along with her. You feel like laughing too. Mostly, though, you feel terrific, in touch with something authentic inside yourself...
...truth is, however, that the era of "English cozies" -- the ladylike, death-stalks-the-vicarage sort of teacup rattler that grannies used to write and read -- is mostly over and widely unmourned. Nor is it necessary these days for women who want to write about the darkest crimes -- P.D. James comes to mind -- to confect not-quite-believable male investigators. It's not a surprise that among the grittiest of this season's crime novels are three written by and about women...