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...fraud. One was the EuroTrym Diet Patch, an adhesive disk that attached to the skin and was supposed to curb the appetite. (It didn't.) The producer was slapped with a $1.5 million fine for making false claims for the device, as well as for two other products, Y-Bron, an impotence remedy, and Foliplexx, a treatment for baldness. At least six more infomercials are currently under investigation. "People are mesmerized by TV," says Barry Cutler, director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection. "They wouldn't give this stuff a second thought if they...
...Edward Petherbridge, twice a Tony nominee for roles in Nicholas Nickleby and Strange Interlude, and Ian McKellen, a Tony winner for his portrayal of the jealous composer Salieri in Amadeus. Each production in Chicago has showcased the two principals and three comparably talented colleagues, Greg Hicks, Eleanor Bron and Jonathan Hyde. The stand opened with The Duchess of Malfi in a faithfully Grand Guignol rendition of Webster's Jacobean tragedy. Actors clad in funereal black moved menacingly amid the stately but decaying gray palatial sets; virtually the only color was a frequent splash of blood. The ensemble followed with...
...Country is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma-inside cellophane. The setting is a seedy, book-infested cottage in the woods. Hilary (Alec Guinness) and his wife Bron (Rachel Kempson) potter around, she arranging flowers and he devising puzzles...
...spiritual setting of this spare new comedy by Alan Bennett, now at London's Queen's Theater, is England and the foibles of the English. Despite their exile, Hilary and Bron are more English than those who stayed behind. She shuffles around in hearty tweeds; he frets over the decline of Lyons Teahouses...
...Edwardian England, Russell has gone to a great degree of bother. The end product, however, is simply too much detail. When Russell attempts an outdoor scene, it looks more like he's constructed a horizonless hot-house. Consequently, in key sequences-as when Birken abandons the intellectual Hermione (Eleanor Bron) in order to submerge himself in nature-one never makes the necessary leap from physical facts to the metaphoric meanings. Why Birken isn't tearing himself apart with prickly burrs as he rolls naked in the ferns and bushes is a more absorbing question than why he stripped...