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...sealing wax; Pierre Curie's hands, swollen by prolonged exposure to radium; the flat feet that kept Albert Einstein out of the army; Nobel Prizewinner Enrico Fermi arriving for an appointment at the U.S. Navy Department and overhearing the desk officer tell his admiral, "There's a wop outside"; F.D.R.'s 13-word handwritten approval of atom bomb research beginning with "O.K."; the B-29 pilot who named a plane after his mother, Enola...
...unlikely to be made by anyone making a theme-park trek across Tennessee. Start at Opryland. "If you're going to be a theme park in Nashville," says Park Flack Tom Adkinson, "you'd better be about music." But not just country music: Opryland's 120 acres embrace doo-wop and Duke Ellington in as many as a dozen simultaneous stage shows. Then it's 20 miles northeast to Hendersonville and a stop at Twitty City, the monument Country Star Conway Twitty has built to himself, including a guided tour conducted by a giant mechanical Twitty Bird. (Just down...
AMERICA REMEMBERS the 1950s fondly: the decade which featured slick hairstyles, doo-wop rock, and an incredible surfeit of guy-meets-girl romances that captured the imaginations of Americans like no other. Winthrop House's production of Grease plays on our idealization of '50s in such a way, both affectionate and mocking, that makes it the most entertaining sock-hop this weekend...
...some intersting satire, including a rendition of "Mad Bomber" by the guys' physical education class and "Saving Ourselves for Marriage" by their female counterparts. By far the most successful satirical seene, though, is the high school dance, in which the mins don black sunglasses and rock in doo-wop harmony...
...there are simply not enough deviations from the dance floor. And even with particularly strong performances by Monica Scattini and Etienne Guichard, there is simply not enough material to justify two hours of flitrations and rebuffs. By the time we reach the 1950s and the invasion of the "doo-wop" thugs in leather jackets, the end is long overdue...