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...Robert Morse brings back to life the author, wit, bon vivant, self-pitier and true enchanter that was Truman Capote in this Tony-winning one-man performance, now on national tour, in Los Angeles through March...
...kind of human talisman, an ancient named Colonel Sun, who bears every possible intimation of immortality. It becomes increasingly clear that the colonel's memory, while selective, goes back centuries, that Sun has a handy way with magic and, yes, an evil eye. He has a ready street wit too. When an earnest Californian wants to know his religious beliefs, he retorts, "If there were any gods, they would be on earth making us do their laundry for them...
When the ever venturesome Stephen Sondheim said his new musical would portray people who killed, or tried to kill, U.S. Presidents, even fans of his acerbic wit and nonpareil invention wondered how such a show could be put together. The work that opens off-Broadway this week amply, at times brilliantly, demonstrates how. The question that lingers...
Still, for all its wit, the text (by John Weidman, Sondheim's collaborator on Pacific Overtures) has no obvious topical resonances -- and probably could not, given that the authors view assassination as arising from thwarted ambition rather than any ideology or cause. As satire, Assassins is pointless: it attacks people who have no defenders. As pop sociology, it makes points about fame, envy and media culture that were made far more richly in John Guare's The House of Blue Leaves. One is left wondering -- not least because of an imagined conversation between a would-be assassin and composer Leonard...
Misery In this Stephen King thriller, James Caan is a romance writer rescued from an accident and held captive while he recuperates. Kathy Bates is his nurse and "biggest fan" -- alternately giddy and menacing in a great turn. Rob Reiner proves himself a director of Hitchcockian wit and wiliness...