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...Tina Turner is too sick to sing. Anemia has sapped the strength she needs to sell her raw-meat music. She can't go on. She must go on; Ike is there, all silky unspoken threat, to see that she fulfills her obligation to the man who found her, nursed her to stardom, gave her her name. He only wants her to sing the hit he has written for her, A Fool in Love ("You can't understand/ Why he treats you like he do when he's such a good man"). So, as she stands mute and trembling...
There are grislier scenes in What's Love Got to Do with It, the drama based on Turner's autobiography, I, Tina. Ike beating Tina. Ike kicking Tina. Ike choking Tina while he rapes her. Ike in the ambulance with Tina after her suicide attempt, whispering, "If you don't make it, I'll kill you." But none is more harrowing than the moment of Ike's killer kiss. It shows how tender a man's domination can seem and how a woman, prodded by terror and responsibility, can see no option except acceding to his abuse. The happy ending...
When the two big laughs come from a bathtub-size salad bowl and a food fight, you can guess that the playwright is flailing. Tina Howe (The Art of Dining, Coastal Disturbances) probably meant ONE SHOE OFF, which opened off-Broadway last week, as a poetic comment on the corrosive effects of professional failure on personal life, combined with a feminist fantasy of zipless fulfillment. Instead of an absurdist Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? her tale of two unhappy couples at a fiasco of a dinner party resembles sketch comedy -- wacky whimsies stitched together, abasing an able cast...
Leaf, co-director of Response, a student run counseling group; and Tina M. D'Elia, of the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center, emphasized that their organizations are available to students who have been raped or assaulted. "We'll believe you. We offer a non-judgmental ear," said Leaf...
Offensive Player of the Week Tina Hennousey of Cornell had a seven-point week with five goals and two assists in two games, including an upset over nationally ranked Brown...