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Moorhouse also weaves humor into the fabric of her movie. One cannot help but be amused by Martin's method of catching the waiter's attention at a restaurant by pouring the wine on the table instead of the glass...
...minor characters rarely remain in the background. An example is Ron Ritchell, as Walter the Waiter, sporting the imposing convex shirt front and the respectful familiarity of a family butler...
Above all, You Never Can Tell rejoices in the delights of the improbable actually happening. Shaw manages to "stretch the long arm of coincidence" without stretching our credulity too far. The play should be great entertainment, as long as you keep the creed of Walter the Waiter in mind: "It's the unexpected that always happens--you never can tell...
...trial with Heinrich. Kuhnpast was given a suspended sentence because his bullets went wide. A third guard shot into the ground, and a fourth told colleagues to shoot only to apprehend; they were acquitted. Heinrich has expressed regret. But he is alive, and Chris Gueffroy, a 20-year- old waiter who only wanted to be free, is dead. Neither could have foreseen that Berlin's Wall would fall nine months later. But once again Germany is insisting that its people should have had a more acute moral vision...
...curtain has been rung down on the long-running farce starring would-be film mogul Giancarlo Parretti. Last week a Delaware judge confirmed Parretti's removal from the board of MGM-Pathe studios. A onetime waiter who bought the studio in 1990 for $1.3 billion, Parretti accumulated huge debts during his half-year tenure as CEO, forcing the company into involuntary bankruptcy. The studio's chief lender, the French bank Credit Lyonnais, pumped in $145 million to restore solvency but demanded his ouster. The Delaware judge agreed, condemning Parretti's mismanagement of the firm. The downward slide continued...