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...Brad Pennington, Baltimore Orioles' reliever, after giving up eight earned run in his first 31/3 innings...
...protagonist is Edward Damson (Michael Pennington), a famous playwright for whom the theater is a religion and its most sacred ritual the revenge- murder that he sees at the heart of Greek tragedy. Edward has a fanatical faith in the cleansing purity of blood vengeance. His wife Helen (Judi Dench), who holds deeply to a liberal belief in fairness and mercy, is his muse and counterbalance -- playing Athena, goddess of reason, to his Perseus, the mythological hero who killed the monstrous Gorgon. The play hinges on the passionate dialectic between these two, which turns ominous when it leaves the realm...
This framing device is rather labored, but in Peter Hall's brilliant production -- complete with stylized masked figures pantomiming the mythological background -- the action it encompasses builds to a fierce momentum. Pennington and particularly Dench perform with such conviction that one forgets there is anything preposterous about their characters. This time Shaffer does not stack the deck in his perennial intellect-ecstasy debate but leaves the outcome ambiguous. In a gory, disturbing finale, both Edward and Helen must plumb, in their ways, the terrible meaning of the Perseus legend: that the slayer of the Gorgon becomes the thing...
...weekday morning out on Route 31, between Pets of Pennington and Party Things!, the Jazzercise center is alive and humming. Driving everything from BMWs to Toyota pickups, women arrive for class with coffee mugs in hand. The class is a mix of violin teachers, novelists, horse breeders and substitute teachers who range in age from 20 to 60. Some drop off preschool children at the center's nursery; others gather in small groups to discuss someone's vacation tan and the pros and cons of buying a car for a 17-year...
...regulars threw a swinging bachelorette party at Chippendale's, the male stripper club over in New York City. Says the newlywed: "We rented a limousine. We partied all the way in and all the way back." They also brought back pictures of the goings-on to show the Pennington class. Mattia and her new friends have remained close; they often meet for dinner...