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...Dolly and Victor are musicals; Moon is a farce. For those seeking weightier drama, we have a pair of more recent arrivals: Zoe Caldwell, 62, in Terrence McNally's Master Class and Uta Hagen, 76, in Nicholas Wright's Mrs. Klein. These two actresses have given their professional lives to the theater--which has in turn gratefully given them a total of five Tony Awards and the evident right to have the phrase "the legendary" prefixed to their names...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: LEGENDS OF THE FALL | 11/20/1995 | See Source »

...swapping some tongue-in-cheek advice: "I should have seen it coming," says Richards. Replies Cuomo: "Maybe so, but now I think we ought to accept this change, embrace it, be positive about it, because change can be very exciting." It emerges that the duo is gabbing about nothing weightier than a new, improved Doritos Tortilla Chips package...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NOBODY MUNCHES BETTER | 1/26/1995 | See Source »

...Bullets Over Broadway" is an entertaining picture and a light one, as was "Manhattan Murder Mystery," and probably the best sort of film Allen can make at this point in his career. Gone, at least for now, is the free rein we gave him to try weightier things, lost in a flurry of well-publicized scandal. Watching "Husbands and Wives" was alternately painful for those of us who were unable to forget how miserable he seemed going to court or defending himself publicly, or infuriating for others who saw him as a creep who had gone too far. The spectacle...

Author: By Daniel N. Halpern, | Title: Biting the Woody 'Bullets' | 11/3/1994 | See Source »

Clinton's bad-hair week symbolizes weightier problems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 5/31/1993 | See Source »

...finally reached the golden palace of the Himalayas!" shouts Eugene Jerome, the lustful 15-year old son of a close-knit Jewish family in Brighton Beach. While Eugene is busy kissing a naked girl on a postcard, the lights dim upon the rest of his family resolving the somewhat weightier issues of sibling rivalry, job loss and parent-child conflict...

Author: By Edith Replogle, | Title: Thanks for the Memoirs | 3/18/1993 | See Source »

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