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...last question: Who has learned that size doesn't count as much as insouciance? Why, Andrew Lloyd Webber. His By Jeeves, a radical overhaul of his 1975 flop show, is a delight in miniature. Based on P.G. Wodehouse's tales of the supreme upper-class twit Bertie Wooster and his man Jeeves, a Zen master of irony, By Jeeves has a blitheness that makes the audience feel as if it's on a holiday from the huffery and puffery of the Boublil-Schonberg musicals (and of Sir Andrew's overblown Sunset Blvd...
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...leads do attempt to lend substance to this thin material. Brian DeVries is charming as the hapless Ruthven, flailing about like a singing Bertic Wooster. Tori Jueds is strong as the prim Rose Maybud, though one gets frustrated with her etiquette-obsessed, lightweight character. Rose is most interesting when interacting with her social opposite and some-time-fiance, the lusty sailor Richard, played on some evenings by Douglas Miller. Richard should be pure comic relief for the audience: a nautical libertine among the prim British. Unfortunately, although Miller's voice is strong and expressive, his stiff, blocky stage presence...
...interns' experiences have cast new light not only on journalism but sometimes on their studies as well. Chitralekha Zutshi, a recent graduate of the College of Wooster in Ohio, and Kanchan Chandra, a Ph.D. candidate in political science at Harvard, have been researching, writing and fact checking for TIME International's Milestones section. "In academia facts are subordinate to theory," says Chandra. "But after this, I'll never be able to look at facts the same...
...narrative, which Malkovich renders murkier, overstressing the mysterious deaths of minor figures a dozen or more years after they could have spilled the beans. He relies heavily on video footage, words projected onto screens, rows of chairs suggesting a government hearing, booming sounds and other techniques reminiscent of the Wooster Group. At the center are four beguiling caricatures, three of men whose alleged homosexuality is linked to misdeeds...