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...other stops, wreaths were laid at the spots where Mrs. Viola Liuzzo and the Rev. James Reeb died. In Montgomery, Abernathy wanted to place a wreath on the bier of Alabama's late Governor Lurleen Wallace, but shied away in fear of provoking an incident. Instead, he sent Husband George a telegram that read: "I have just received the shocking news of the passing of your wife. Please know that we share your grief and sorrow, and our prayers are with you and your children...
...looks, something of what West Side Story-alias Romeo and Juliet-did for the rumbling teen-age groups of the '50s. In Your Own Thing, Shakespeare has had the services of a brilliant collaborator from Portland, Ore. Writer-Director Donald Driver, 44, has mounted the story of Viola and Duke Orsino, Olivia and Sebastian on a simple white set that swings with multimedia cinema effects and a hard-rock beat...
Minus Malvolio, Toby Belch and Sir Andrew Aguecheek, the old plot slides surprisingly well into the with-it world. Viola's whim of dressing in men's clothes, inexplicable in the original, fits in quite naturally with the mod look; she and her brother Sebastian wear identical outfits of zippered yellow tunics and rust trousers, and of course their moptops are the same length. The updated plot involves a singing group known as the Apocalypse, one member of which has just been drafted. Viola, calling herself Charlie, fills in for him; when Orsino, here known as Orson, feels...
Your Own Thing tosses off Shakespeare's calculated sexual confusions with jaunty lightheartedness. The songs are deft adaptations of rock rhythm. But the principal light-and-power supply of the show is a loose-jointed, lemur-eyed young lady named Leland Palmer, who as Viola shows that she can mug a laugh out of thin air, detonate a song and dance like a rag doll in a washing machine...
...last Avatar. decision came in December when Judge Edward M. Viola of the District Court in East Cambridge said that he did not have jurisdiction to pass on the case. It was sent to the Middlesex County Superior Court where Attorney Joseph Oteri, of Crane, Inker and Oteri, took over the defense...