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Give director Henry Bial credit for not sticking to conventional interpretations of Christmas. His Three Christmas One-Acts analyze the holiday season from three widely divergent perspectives--one uses the figure of Santa Claus to attack the selling of scientific knowledge, another examines the theme of generational rebirth through a sequence of Christmas dinners, and the third employs a Dr. Seuss story to stress that Christmas spirit is more important than gift-getting...
...first of the one-acts, e.e. cummings' Santa Claus: A Morality, is the weakest of the Christmas offerings. Its attachment to the Santa Claus figure is, at best, intermittent--cummings' play could just as easily have been constructed around another personality of childhood fantasy, like the Easter Bunny...
...recent wave of hype began last year with his defense of hotel magnate Leona Helmsley. With the release of Reversal of Fortune, the film in which actor Ron Silver portrays Dershowitz defending Claus von Bulow, the feisty professor's public recognition level rose another notch...
...Santa Claus kicked off the Christmas shopping season in grand style last week in St. Louis, where he was escorted by 3,000 children to his castle at the sprawling 200-store Northwest Plaza. In New York City, Macy's staged its lavish Thanksgiving Day parade, towing Bart Simpson and 12 other giant balloons to Herald Square, where a 36-ft.-tall Paddington Bear now hovers invitingly above the entrance of the flagship store. In San Francisco holiday shoppers were making a beeline for the free merry-go-round and other rides on the roof of the Emporium. Across America...
REVERSAL OF FORTUNE. A high comedy of manners about Claus and Sunny von Bulow, played by Jeremy Irons and Glenn Close as if they were Noel Coward lovers gone to hell in a Lamborghini. The death-styles of the rich and famous have rarely been portrayed with such cauterizing sympathy...