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Javier Romero "95 says his current feelings are summed up by a comic strip he recently saw: "An old white man asks this Black woman if it hurts her self-esteem to know that she got her job solely on the basis of her gender and race. She says no, and then asks him the same question...
...languishes for 20 years in a cruel dictator's prison. A wife passes that time in exile, faithfully awaiting his return. We know what's supposed to happen when he's released: a period of adjustment (serio or comic, according to taste) and then a triumphant assertion of true love's unconquerable power...
West Side Story opened on Broadway in September 1957 to a somewhat baffled critical reception. What to make of a musical that was a tragedy, though with harshly comic moments; that told its tale largely through dance; that featured a backdrop of fire escapes instead of a stairway to paradise? Audiences had no such confusion, and the show has been running-in one place or another-practically ever since. The movie came out in 1961, and in 1989 most of the dances were gathered into Jerome Robbins' Broadway, where they were the strongest and least dated element in the show...
...unlikely to help. "We are not just competing with other forms of media and murder trials but with faster-paced, more sophisticated life-styles," notes veteran soap-opera writer Tom Citrano, formerly of General Hospital and currently with Loving. "It's not about coming up with spectacular plots, or comic-book stories, or public-service announcements but with stories that mirror contemporary life...
...discuss comic actresses is to invoke some sacred names from Hollywood's golden age. Ryan, who as a kid in Fairfield, Connecticut, loved to watch the classic comedies, has acute ad-lib analyses of the pantheon residents. On Carole Lombard: "Elegant, but a little blue collar. She's not afraid to be funny at her own expense." Rosalind Russell: "A real quick draw, the fastest of them all, and extremely comfortable with winning." Audrey Hepburn: "In a class by herself. She was mysterious, but totally vulnerable and accessible. There was a light in her eye. And she loved being...