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Brad Rouse's production of Paula Vogel's The Baltimore Waltz is an AIDS play turned "inside-out." Through the farce-like adventures of its protagonists, Anna and Carl, The Baltimore Waltz subtly addresses both the tragedy of AIDS, and the relationship of the playwright to her brother, Carl, who died of AIDS...
...their relationship as brother and sister instantly believable; the various strains Anna's disease and her promiscuity put on this relationship are conveyed with delicacy and subtlety. Their rapport, especially when they reminisce about their childhood closeness, rings touchingly true, and is especially poignant in a play dedicated to Vogel's own lost bother. But Carl and Anna are neither melodramatic nor cliched. Amid the kaleidoscopic, surreal happenings of Vogel's plot, one never loses a sense of these characters' essential normality and love for each other...
Brad Rouse's production of The Baltimore Waltz manages to evoke Vogel's various levels of meaning compellingly, with engaging performances by the actors and seamless work by the technical crew. The Baltimore Waltz is an exciting and innovative take on the AIDS play, with relevance that reaches beyond AIDS itself to the effects that both growing-up and loss have on familial relationships...
...largest institutional investors expressed unhappiness over these events. They saw Tisch as a shopkeeper and not the right kind of dreamer. "It's that vision thing," says Harold Vogel of Merrill Lynch. "His idea of a vision is another year of winning the ratings war, and that's it. That's not the way you grow a network." The only thing that was growing at this network was the list of jokes about it. Rush Limbaugh recently referred to "the three major networks -- four, if you count...
...says the TV-industry executive, "not as a failure, but as someone who took the company and turned it around. Now he's a winner: he's probably $400 million ahead of his original investment, and he's still got 10% of the new entity." Merril Lynch's Vogel sees the merger as "Tisch's exit strategy. He was having a problem chasing out. This is one way of solving that problem...