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...each player provides a certain charming element of their own hilarity, which puts that extra dash of spice into the play’s already piquant brew. Levenson’s talent is not to be overlooked though he is hunched over throughout the play and dons a gray wig as he wiggles about the stage. So convincing was Levenson in his portrayal of the meddlesome old snoop that at first I didn’t even realize that the character was played by a student. Any time Levenson took the stage he wowed the crowd with his powerfully conveyed...
...biography of a Founding Father--wasn't that the very thing the judges were supposed to love? Instead, Kevin Boyle, an associate professor of history at Ohio State University, turned out to be this year's winner. Although no one in his book wears a powdered wig, Boyle has an irresistible story to tell in Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age (Holt; 415 pages). And tell it he does, sometimes with a novelistic richness, always with a sure feel for tangled motivations and hidden agendas...
Laundry vs. No laundry: Do you do laundry today? Or don’t you do laundry today?: Whether the walk is from Wig A to Wig X, Matthews to Weld, doing laundry sure is an annoying hassle...
...directing Toshiro Mifune in Drunken Angel. Very soon, every foreigner who landed in Tokyo?Somerset Maugham, Tom Wolfe, Richard Avedon, Philip Johnson?was calling on him to be shown around. Richie's shrewd, but forgiving, fascination with human quirks there gives us Truman Capote buying an "imitation geisha wig" and Kurosawa taking in a Fellini film without subtitles ("Gets in the way of the picture," the master pronounces). Francis Ford Coppola is "like a little boy, living entirely in his imagination with the difference, the great difference, that with Francis images always come true...
...dance class, Clark meets a parade of characters—including Bobbie (Lisa Ann Walter), the loud, obnoxious dance partner whom no one seems to want, and Link Peterson (Stanley Tucci), a co-worker of Clark’s who secretly dons sequins and a shaggy wig to become a frenetic mambo dancer. As Mr. Clark and his two-stepping entourage spend their evenings preparing for an amateur competition, his wife suspects that he might be having an affair and hires a private detective (Richard Jenkins) to track him down...