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...create a parable about going home again (Angel Falls). The characters on Melrose Place have a bland, modern universality. Indeed, watching the show again for the first time since its debut, one is struck by how the personnel have blended together. There was once a black neighbor (Vanessa Williams); she has moved away. Michael and Jane were initially struggling young marrieds; in short order they became free-lancing singles just like everyone else. With the exception of one gay character (whose plot significance is minimal), the pieces for mixing and matching are interchangeable, and thus the combinations are unlimited...
...Vanessa W. Liu '96 only drinks champagne when she goes out to eat. "I don't like the taste of beer," she said...
...downplayed, if anything. One by one we see the women's high expectations and ideals sacrificed to the routines imposed by domesticity and work. Jennifer McGeorge as Jackie has particular problems at times portraying the character's inner suffering. There are, however, some remarkable performances elsewhere--notably by Vanessa "Barbara" Milton as her mother...
Hall launched the project with star vehicles: Vanessa Redgrave in Tennessee Williams' Orpheus Descending and Dustin Hoffman in The Merchant of Venice, both of which transferred to Broadway. Now he aims at London only, ranging from the money-harried gloom of Ibsen's The Wild Duck to the haute-bourgeois sexual antics of Tartuffe. In October he returns briefly to the nonprofit R.S.C. with an All's Well That Ends Well starring Sophie Thompson, sister of Oscar winner Emma. His best evidence yet that a classic can prevail on the basis of the text itself is Lysistrata. The ancient Greek...
...what Lynn Redgrave recalls as a characteristic family photograph, her father Michael and sister Vanessa posed exquisitely in front while the workaday members of the family -- Lynn, her brother Corin and mother Rachel Kempson -- stood demurely behind. She doesn't come out and say so, but the grouping was painfully apt. While acting seems to be a genetic imperative for the clan (five generations have worked in the business), only Michael and Vanessa have been touched by the magical ability to make transcendence look effortless. He was among the greatest of a towering generation that included Olivier, Richardson and Gielgud...