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...playwright does not deny that bad reviews wound. But these days, there is also a keen pride as Wasserstein views her handiwork on Broadway. "I'm normally a self-deprecating person," she says, putting it mildly. "But when I saw those women on stage in the feminist rap group, I said, 'Good for them, and good for us.' This is a play of ideas. Whether you agree or not doesn't matter...
...Greece he will disappear behind bars -- or be murdered and declared a suicide and thus be unable to present his own version of what happened. He figures his fate in Greece will be worse if Papandreou remains in power; so his motive for speaking may also be to wound the government...
...professor of history at Lehman College in New York City, is a scrupulous biographer. But he seems an ingenuous historian. In his view, Robeson became the target of "Cold War hysteria," and the sad outcome of a brilliant career was, in essence, "America's tragedy." But in fact, the wound was self-inflicted. The champion of minorities and laborers turned out to be oddly forgiving about crimes against humanity -- provided that they were committed in the Workers' Paradise. To him, Stalin's infamous purges were a $ proper way to deal with "counter-revolutionary assassins." The pact between the U.S.S.R...
...Mass. Ave. church was holding a benefit dance for Salvadoran emigres when a fight developed between Parada and 22-year-old Marcus U. Reyes, according to police. Later that night. Reves was brought to Mount Auburn Hospital with a fatal stab wound to the chest, police said...
Another battle film helped Mississippi Burning come to life. Two years ago Orion's Platoon ripped the scabs off the wound of Viet Nam, copped lots of Oscars and grossed close to $300 million worldwide. Any successful movie creates a new market, and studios -- especially Orion, which has a rep for taking chances on political pictures -- were soon scrambling for the next Platoon. Cynicism is served with a twist in Hollywood, and Mississippi Burning has taken its licks as a ready-made Big Issue blockbuster. Before its release, even Hackman gibed that its producers "looked at how much Platoon made...