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...whose wit and literary flair kept an audience of 400 in Sever 113 enraptured for over an hour, compared the Palestinian/Israeli conflict to Shakespeare's "Hamlet...
...Genie, by Robin Williams) offers to sell the viewer a "combination hookah and coffee maker -- also makes julienne fries," Aladdin is a ravishing thrill ride pulsing at MTV-video tempo. You have to go twice -- and that's a treat, not a chore -- to catch the wit in the decor, the throwaway gags, the edges of the action. Blink, and you'll miss the pile of "discount fertilizer" Aladdin's pursuers land in; or the fire eater with an upset stomach; or half of Williams' convulsing asides. Chuck Jones' verdict is judicious: Aladdin is "the funniest feature ever made...
Leguizamo, 28, comes from the streets. Born in Bogota and raised in New York City, he prides himself on mixing quick wit and acute perception with the cadences and carriage of a tenement tough. After a string of movies, including the forthcoming big-budget fantasy thriller Super Mario Brothers (from which, he claims, he was "almost fired for coming across too Hispanic"), he is back onstage thumbing his nose both at bourgeois ethnic critics and at what he sees as pervasive racism in the mainstream with the defiantly titled Spic-O-Rama...
...deeply moving drama about the wrenching breakup of a gay relationship in New York's Greenwich Village. Played out against the soaring arias of the rare Maria Callas recording that gives the play its title, The Lisbon Traviata exposes the hearts and lives of its four searching characters with wit, brilliance and passion. New Repertory Theatre, 54 Lincoln Str., Newton Highlands. Wednesdays at 2 and 8 p.m. Thursdays at 8 p.m. Fridays at 8 p.m. Saturdays at 5 and 8:30 p.m. Sundays at 3 and 7:30 p.m. Call 332-1646 for more information...
...first, Schweitzer said, he tried to sell his book proposal to New York City publishers, but for three years "nobody was interested." At "wit's end," he turned to an old friend in official Washington, State Department official Richard Armitage, then at the Pentagon. But when Schweitzer offered his services, he was turned down. "I had to force Ted down the throats of the intelligence bureacracy," says a Defense Intelligence Agency official. The agency soon reversed itself, and under the code name Swamp Ranger, set Schweitzer to screen the Hanoi archives, copying enormous numbers of documents...