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STEPHEN SONDHEIM SAYS HE'S never been in love, but he writes better than any other living composer or lyricist about the pleasures of passion, the pangs of jealousy, the durability and disillusionment of life in partnership -- the state he describes, in a characteristic song title, as perpetually Sorry- Grateful...
DIED. Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 83, film director, writer and producer; in Bedford, New York. Mankiewicz loved words; he filmed words; he realized that talking pictures were just that. Born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, he started off as a reporter for the Chicago Tribune before entering the world of film. He...
2:50 p.m., en route to Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania: Campaign director Bruce Lindsey explained what the near mute Clinton did when he was alone with aides. "He talks," Lindsey said with bemused resignation. "He can't, but that's what he does. He talks anyway."
The show, which covers over a century of history, from John Wilkes Booth's assassination of President Lincoln in 1865 to the present, is a "non-realistic" presentation whose characters and events betray time and space, travelling between years to connect with each other.
The performers are powerful actors and singers and create convincing portraits of the assassins. Abe Sylvia's portrayal of Czolgosz is heart wrenching, Matt Walton (John Wilkes Booth) and Brian Mack (Zangara) are similarly captivating. Strong-voiced Jennifer Zimmerman makes a wonderfully comedian Sara Jane Moore.