Word: uptightness
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...became their boss, some wags at the Today show predictably dubbed him Miles Silverberg. Jeff Zucker, the 26-year-old wunderkind who was named Today's executive producer last December, just smiles at being compared to the frenetic, baby-faced producer on Murphy Brown. "I think Miles is more uptight than I am," he says...
...Uptight is hardly a word to apply to Zucker these days. Try upbeat. After three years of soap-opera travails and ratings woes, NBC's morning show has almost miraculously righted itself. Katie Couric, who became co-anchor a year ago, has managed to make people forget the short, unhappy tenure of Deborah Norville. Bryant Gumbel, the show's sometimes testy on-air leader for the past decade, is smiling more. And the audience is filing back into the auditorium. Though Good Morning America retains a narrow lead in the ratings, Today scored a weekly win last month...
...role of Peter, the preppy and anal homosexual P.A., David R. Gammons upstaged the other actors with his masterful performance. His delivery was finely tuned, going back and forth from his outwardly uptight demeanor to a lusty raw one, in which he "has" phone sex and masturbates. He remains in perfect tandem with the other players, darting about the stage, typing frantically on his lap-top computer and molesting Adam. His interaction with the audience, the other characters and with his props--coffee mug, knife, parts of Zora's body--are fully developed and fully enthralling...
Gurney exhibits a fine sense of humor throughout the rest of the play. He avoids falling into romantic over-sentimentality by interspersing humor with touching dialogue. For example, when Andrew and Melissa's fifty-year relationship finally involves its first instance of lovemaking, Melissa says, "We're two uptight old WASPs going at it like a sale at Brooks Brothers...
...have any answers to the sex thing, but I do have an alternate way of making students in this pressure-cooker of a school less uptight. Take naps...