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Indeed, the North-Robb race has proved to be a rich source of comic material. David Letterman drew up a Top 10 List of mock campaign slogans for North. No. 7 was, "A man of convictions. None of them pending." (North's three convictions in the Iran-contra case were overturned on a technicality.) And Garry Trudeau featured North as arrogant and a chronic prevaricator in his syndicated Doonesbury comic strip last week...
...money for the film came from credit card loans, the sale of Smith's comic book collection and a loan from Mosier's parents...
Gloom never settled so quickly, before the foot lights as when Silver decides to preach issues. Pterodactyls does not descend emotional crests, it, plunges from them. In a Kathleen Turneresque growl, Grace bear down on Tommy with a triumphant speech, reaching the peak of her comic crescendo only to be interrupted by a gun discharging upstairs. Utter silence falls with the curtain as Todd intones. "Suddenly it became very cold." Manipulation reigns as Silver's king principle of craft...
...interest in the progression of their characters. Robert Levy gives the strongest characterization as the flamboyantly gay experimental actor, Sparger. At first, Sparger seems stereotypical, but as the play continues one sees that this is just a front for a truly painful and completely atypical past. Levy handles the comic and tragic aspects of his role with deftness and humor, carefully balancing the outrageous and the all-too-human aspects of Sparger's personality. Dana Gotlieb is subtly effective as Wanda, a substitute teacher for whom the assassination of JFK has become an obsessive symbol of lost innocence and missed...
...which should have been the climax of McCarthy's portrayal, gets lost in all the raving. Danielle Sherrod, as Carla, a flamboyant would-be sex goddess, is engaging and humorous at first. But her portrayal, too, is so intense as to lack dynamic, and her story, though flecked with comic moments, is ultimately predictable: good girl with high hopes burns out. Rona, portrayed by Kathy Twiss, is somewhat stereotypical: ex-hippie bemoans the moral void that supplanted the idealism of the Sixties. Rona reels off a year-by-year record of the protests of the Sixties, which is just boring...