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...Wavy Lays" chip commercial during last year's Super Bowl, but liberal stalwarts Mario Cuomo and Ann Richards have nothing left to lose. The Democratic ex-governors of New York and Texas will appear in a 30-second ad during this Sunday's big game, 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...
...When she turned to Beth, her sister looked as if she had just fallen peacefully asleep. Her hand was tucked under her cheek. When Jo came closer, she realized her sister was past sleep, past dreaming. Jo froze. She waited to see her sister's shoulders rise and fall, for her to begin breathing again...
Adventurous directors love to bend and spindle Shakespeare to make contemporary points. Declan Donnellan, of Britain's Cheek by Jowl company (on display in Brooklyn this fall), uses the most traditional means -- a bare stage, an all-male cast -- for radical ends. Does cross dressing lead to tatty camp? No, it's an apt way of addressing the crises of eros and identity at the heart of the play, where comic ingenuity escalates into poetic rapture...
...production of Shakespeare's As You Like It by the British Cheek by Jowl troupe, which returns this week to the Brooklyn Academy of Music after a triumphant visit in October, is one such theatrical epiphany. It does more than revive the play; it revives one's faith in the theater as a place to weave magic...
...story line revolves around a love triangle involving a murder, stakeout, sentencing and jailing, but all of it is done in a tongue in cheek way. Each character is a subversive look at a stereotype. In examining such molds as the Kelly girl, the private detective, the codependent lover, the bobby socks-poodle skirt blonde, Hughes also assesses such images and then creates new ones. Accents and body language are mixed and transferred by the skilled actors. The subtext is continually brought to the surface and reconciled with the text or else dismissed, but in this case Hughes is responsible...