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...pleas for help than does Scientology. Says Cynthia Kisser, the network's Chicago-based executive director: "Scientology is quite likely the most ruthless, the most classically terroristic, the most litigious and the most lucrative cult the country has ever seen. No cult extracts more money from its members." Agrees Vicki Aznaran, who was one of Scientology's six key leaders until she bolted from the church in 1987: "This is a criminal organization, day in and day out. It makes Jim and Tammy [Bakker] look like kindergarten...
However, as the play progresses, the 40's motif is abandoned. Ophelia (Nora Connell) and Laertes (Adam Freed) travel backwards in time with each costume change. This mixed-era wardrobe becomes most distracting in the case of the of a courtier (Vicki Wiseblatt) who is dressed as if she had just left Versailles. Wiseblatt sported an enormous red hat which upstaged everything and everyone on stage...
That is not as easy as it sounds. The lead lounge lizard, toothpaste heir Charley Pearl (Baldwin), is engaged and attending a Las Vegas bachelor party when he falls into obsession with nightclub singer Vicki Anderson (Basinger). She, in turn, is the mistress of the Strip's founding mobster, Bugsy Siegel. In other words, these are not people with whom one feels an immediate natural identification. Nor is their problem -- a stormy relationship that requires them to marry and separate four times -- one for which most people are likely to have an affinity...
About all that can be said for Charley is that his reluctance to marry a spoiled-rotten fiance (Elisabeth Shue) and take on a classically choleric movie mogul (Robert Loggia) in the bargain is understandable. About all that can be said about Vicki is that she is pretty and sings sexily...
...things about the [Center for Science and International Affairs] faculty is that they really think that the science and technology matters," says Vicki L. Norberg-Bohm, a doctoral fellow at the Kennedy School. "You can't treat them like black boxes...