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...Then Moore got drunk - his slurring, staggering, prat-falling millionaire in 1981's "Arthur" was the part of Moore's career, and also the peak. But if "Unfaithfully Yours," "Micki and Maude," "Best Defense," "Like Father, Like Son" and 1988's "Arthur 2: On the Rocks" were not the stuff of a lifetime achievement award, Moore continued to deliver what he did best - an always-funny mix of the underdog charm and comedic frustration of a little man trying to get his in a big dog's world...
With Ms. Lewinsky on HBO, March is Monica Flashback Month, a good time to remember that McCarthyism may be gone but witch-hunts will always be with us. A good time, too, for The Crucible, Arthur Miller's 1953 warning against communal hysteria, which uses the Salem witch trials as its model for hypocrisy. This lucid if uneven Broadway staging stars a ferocious Liam Neeson, still the thinking man's hunk. Laura Linney has the more subdued role as his suffering wife. But her gift for finding fire in the quietest corners of normality makes her Neeson's equal...
Onstage, Henry Goodman is a dynamo. To very different roles - from the worried husband in Arthur Miller's Broken Glass to the ruthless political fixer in Alistair Beaton's Feelgood - he brings a riveting, nervous energy. And he knows how to control it; the most compelling moment of his 1999 Olivier Award-winning Shylock in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice at the Royal National Theatre was the character's sudden calm, as that energy was channeled into an overwhelming quest for revenge. Yet most people have never heard...
...Sweeney is only one of a growing number of gems now available to fellow enthusiasts. Amazon.com has an excellent selection in its Broadway and Vocalists section of uncommon recordings from the recent as well as not-so-recent past. One can find on the site the recording of Bea Arthur on Broadway, a show that opened just last month, as well as the 1954 Threepenny Opera featuring the young Arthur...
...role in Neil Simon's 1991 debut of Lost in Yonkers; in New York. (See Eulogy) DIED. James Tobin, 84, Yale professor emeritus, top adviser during the Kennedy Administration and recipient of the 1981 Nobel Prize in economics for his Portfolio Selection theory; in New Haven. INDICTED. The Arthur Andersen accounting firm, 88, on one count of obstruction of justice for allegedly destroying evidence related to the failed Enron Corp., by a federal grand jury; in Houston. LICENSED. Mike Tyson, 35, for a championship bout against current heavyweight titleholder Lennox Lewis; in Washington, D.C. Tyson was denied a boxing license...