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Playwright Beth Henley, 29, parlays down-home truths into hits...
Sugar and spice and every known vice-that's what Beth Henley's plays are made of. The Delta ladies who inhabit Henley's comic universe can be found a few miles south of Jackson, Miss., and just this side of Bananas. There is Babe Botrelle, whose Crimes of the Heart are to shoot her piggish husband (because "I just didn't like his looks") and to keep close company with a 15-year-old black boy. Popeye Jackson, from The Miss Firecracker Contest, knits tiny jumpsuits for frogs and "can hear voices through my eyes...
...plays have a sense of place and character," says Ulu Grosbard, director of Jamey Foster, "a unity of vision and a sharp eye for the contradictions within human beings." Jon Jory, whose Actors Theater of Louisville first produced Crimes of the Heart, is pleased that "Beth writes people rather than plots. She's writing what she knows. She imbibed the Southern gothic sensibility with her mother's milk." Evelyn Purcell, who will direct The Moon Watcher, is a kindred spirit; her documentary film Rush, about student bodies at Ole Miss, is a cartographer's view of Henleyland...
...graduate of Boston University Medical School, Nesson originated and directed the Harvard Community Health Plan. Deland said. At BWH Nesson held the post of vice president of the ambulatory and community health services. Nesson, a specialist in internal medicine, spent eight years at Beth Israel Hospital, where he acted as physician-in-chief...
Commenting on the last-minute B.C. victory, assistant coach Beth Wheatley said, "In the last three minutes we couldn't generate. It just got down to the last few minutes, and if you don't dig you lose. BC dug harder than...