Word: tonya
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...Tonya, 17, began having sex when she was 12, but rarely uses a condom. "I know a lot of people who have died of AIDS," she says, "but I'm not that worried." Every six months she gets an AIDS test. "The only time I'm worried is right before I get the results back...
...theatrical moment. Sitting at home, you can't see the deliriously gaudy haberdashery that bedecks the Guys and Dolls touts, or the wonderfully witty scene changes in Crazy for You, or the ghosts of parents past that float through The Secret Garden. You may miss the sulfurous sensuality Tonya Pinkins radiates in Jelly's Last Jam, but you'll get the achy-breaky pain in her reading of Play the Music for Me. On the Secret Garden album, Daisy Eagan, the show's child star, is forever 11, frozen in innocence. Faith Prince's comic chirps and sniffles come across...
...Jelly's Last Jam fails as dramaturgy, it succeeds much of the time as bouncy entertainment, thanks to four people. Mary Bond Davis is a first-rate upholstered mama. Tonya Pinkins is sultry, sharp-tongued and sweet-voiced as Morton's love interest. Savion Glover, 18, outdoes his own brilliant best in tap-dancing the role of the young Jelly. And as the mature Jelly, Gregory Hines vibrates with the kind of glorious triple-threat talent -- as singer, dancer and actor -- that Broadway used to revel in but hardly ever witnesses anymore...
...Tonya Harding has not been as consistent a performer as Ito, but they have a lot in common: ice is native ground to both, and they take to it without fear. Harding's story is a rare one: she is a scrappy kid from the wrong side of the tracks who has had to battle herself, her family and the high price of skating < mastery to become an international performer...
...rich man's sport. Most families of successful competitors have had to make sacrifices and seek outside help. But skaters usually have backgrounds more stable than Harding's. Her father, a laborer, was her mother's fourth husband; there have been two more since. A coach took over in Tonya's teen years, but the girl rebelled and entered what has been an off-again on-again marriage. That alone makes her unusual. So deep is their dedication that many female competitors could be called the Skating Nuns. A married Ice Queen is a very rare creature indeed...