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...admit it. I love those teddybears. They come in all shapes and sizes, and they're all over the place. In the bookstacks. On the tables and chairs. Next to the comic book collection...
Nothing lends itself to Rossini's tidal score more than a story of comic abduction, spousal warfare, anachronistic feminism and subtle slapstick. In this opera, one Bey of Algiers, Mustafa, seeks to rid himself of his dull wife. Elvira and replace her with the kidnapped Isabella, an Italian femme fatale. Enter Lindoro, a hapless Italian slave who just happens to be the lover of Isabella. With the cooperation of an unlucky suitor and the assistance of Elvira, Isabella and Lindoro escape to Italy together by means of an outragerous contrivance, leaving Mustafa and Elvira reunited...
...Comic: Boy, you're a real barrel of laughs. Got any other good news...
...Comic: Enough, already. I get it. I'm as good as dead. I might as well give up salad and fish and start eating pastrami and French fries again. I'll cut out my daily three-mile walk. I might as well go back to cigarettes...
...Comic: Now you're talking. I was beginning to think I'd have to see my doctor for a haircut...