Word: wanda
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...better, and yea, became exceedingly multitudinous on the whole earth. And the voice of comedy became a babble (or babel), impossible to characterize. But there was "Trading Places" and "48 Hours" and "When Harry Met Sally" and "Beverly Hills Cop" and "Ghostbusters" and "Metropolitan" and "A Fish Called Wanda" and "The Player" and "Bob Roberts" and more beyond number and counting. But you've seen all of those, I'm sure...
...WANDA RICHERT, the lead in this backstage musical, caught a respiratory infection. Her understudy unexpectedly dropped out for personal reasons. The producers turned to Karen Prunczik, Richert's roommate, who had helped her rehearse the part. Prunczik didn't become a star, but she did go on to marry 42nd Street producer David Merrick...
...pregnant drug abusers. Each woman receives personal attention from project adviser-advocates. The program also pays for transportation and other child-care costs until the birth. Chicago's Haymarket House even houses its clients during pregnancy and provides follow-up services for as long as three years. Says director Wanda Thomaston of her clients: "It's often their first sober pregnancy. They've never felt their babies move or experienced labor pains...
...Residents. No surprise that the first CD-ROM from the eyeball-headed San Francisco group should be called Freak Show -- a virtual version of their 1990 set. The user enters a carnival big top to see and hear such freaks as Harry the Head, Herman the Human Mole, Wanda the Worm Woman, Jello Jack the Boneless Boy and Bouncing Benny the Bump. Later the user can wander backstage and sneak into the freaks' trailers, flip through their photo albums, read their love letters, watch music videos on their TV sets. Animated by Jim Ludtke, Freak Show has an artfully eerie...
...Lust and Stopped Clocks. A fastpaced comedy about suburban high school drug culture and the 1986 Challenger explosion. Set in Concord, NH, the hometown of schoolteacher/astronaut Christa McAuliffe, the play focuses on the awkwardly traumatic lives of Kurt, a dyslectic pot dealer; Dennis, a lovelorn ice cream scooper; and Wanda, a leukemia-stricken cheerleader. Loeb EX, 7:30 p.m. Free. 19 November Friday...