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...Matthew O'Dell told the New York Times, "You call Donald Rumsfeld and tell him . . . (we) are ready to go home. Tell him to come spend a night in our building." The idea of in-country R&R facilities certainly has an echo of Vietnam; so does the recent USO show in Baghdad featuring Kid Rock and a Playboy bunny (the rapper extolled the virtues of presidential marijuana...
...against us” on the other. A young woman nicknamed “Media Frenzy” chatted with the audience in her slashed newsprint wig and dress, and “Miss Homeland USA” strutted around in camouflage hot pants, explaining that she was the USO girl of the future—when America would be in the seventh year of its “holy crusade” against the rest of the world...
...loves America. According to the Associated Press, J. Lo, Kid Rock and Ja Rule are off to a “U.S. Military base overseas” to entertain the USO troops during the holidays, sponsored by the popular music pantheon. Those stationed in Kosovo will have the pleasure of being serenaded by Mariah Carey. U2’s Bono ended the band’s Elevation tour in Miami with the exclamation, “I’d like to say how much we love this country and we wish you safety and prosperity,” wearing...
...life, an off-Broadway musical in the '80s (starring Helen Gallagher) and dozens of female impersonators, the deep-voiced diva is back in no fewer than three plays. Tovah Feldshuh is the star and co-author of Tallulah Hallelujah!, an off-Broadway play in the form of a fictional USO show with Bankhead as host. Nan Schmid, formerly of the Second City improv troupe, wrote and stars in Dahling, in which eight actors portray more than 40 characters in Bankhead's life. And Kathleen Turner, last seen as Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate in London, is touring the country...
...ingredients of a much better show. The writing is sometimes sophisticated, but spotty. Here, there's a wry, if insider-y, one-liner: a weary Midler looks in the mirror and moans, "I look like the last 20 minutes of For the Boys," her 1991 drama about USO performers. Then there's a gay-flight-attendant cliche, surprisingly lame on a show from a longtime gay-community icon...