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...short plays, Ugly Duckling contains the sharper wit. In Milne's story, a wino King (Winsome Brown) and vain Queen (Charles Guerrero) are looking to marry off their ugly daughter, Princess Camilla (Andrea Thome) to the eagerly awaited Prince Simon (Alexandre Schneiders...

Author: By Sarah C. Dry, | Title: Ugly is Beautifully Silly | 3/4/1993 | See Source »

...Hill dropped the original music and wrote new lyrics to arias by Gounod, Offenbach, Verdi, Mozart and Donizetti. Lloyd Webber considered producing an embellished version of it, then decided to do his own. Thank heavens. Hill's backstage farce is a kind of Noises Off without the wit, and the cast plays it as hammy gaslight farce -- a penny dreadful that at today's prices plays like a $32.50 dreadful. It alights this week in Indianapolis and Kansas City, Missouri...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Phantom Mania | 3/1/1993 | See Source »

...short parody of Madonna's "Truth or Dare" in which Madonna, as played by Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon, is made to pay for her castigation of the well-meaning dolt Kevin Costner, as played by Nirvana's Kurt Cobain. All the rest of the bits feature the wit and wisdom of Moore, who states at one point that "my mind is turning into a huge gelatinous ball of pepper...

Author: By John Donahue, | Title: Before Punk Got Big | 2/25/1993 | See Source »

...about a dinner party no one can leave. But, not to worry, it ends up as It's a Wonderful Life. And it has Murray, who, ever since his debut on Saturday Night Live in 1976, has been defining the would-be-hip U.S. male -- the frat fellow with wit. The cool jerk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bill Murray's Deja Voodoo | 2/15/1993 | See Source »

...minds of Quarterly editors, Hillary is a far more heroic figure--high-profile, untarnished, apparently strong. She made the transformation from frowzy brown hair and Coke-bottle glasses to faux blonde locks and contact lenses. She also has brains, wit and a great resume...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, | Title: Adventures of SuperHillary? | 2/6/1993 | See Source »

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