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...UNDER EERIE YELLOW strobe lights at 3 a.m. in Tel Aviv's newly named Yitzhak Rabin Square, Yigal Amir again fired a pistol at a victim less than a yard away. This time the gun was a toy and the Prime Minister, whom Amir assassinated on the same spot 12 days before, was played by a policeman. Amir wore a white bulletproof vest, and a chain around his waist yoked him to police escorts while he coolly re-enacted the killing for official video cameras. "Murderer, die! Maniac! You piece of garbage!" shouted Israelis from behind the barricades...
...that never done nothin'/ But to build and destroy/ You play with my world like it's your little toy." --Bob Dylan...
Susan Zeeman Roger's multitiered, raked set, a recreation of the ship which actually "sinks", is as intriguing as a toy in a shop window, and is a visual complement to the child-like gleefulness of this very adult play. Sound elements, such as the ironic "Victory at Sea" entrance music and the incongruous barnyard sound-effects playing off-stage add a witty undercurrent to the action of the play...
NEIL YOUNG will never have trouble finding accessories for his Lionel O-gauge freight set again. The toy-train enthusiast (and sometime rock star) is part of a consortium headed by former Paramount chairman Martin S. Davis that just bought the Lionel Trains company. Young, who has two sons with cerebral palsy, has been working with former owner Richard Kughn on developing remote controls that make it easier for handicapped people to use model trains. The new company will continue this work...
...sure, dirty jokes are funny. But there is a cutoff point for everything. Unless the sight of a dildo lying in a fish tank makes you crack up, most likely you will end up rolling your eyes at Allen getting hot and bothered when he sees the latex fish toy...