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...pity, have their place as well as their limits. Now let's try laughter -- the best medicine, as Reader's Digest, Norman Cousins and Paul Rudnick can tell you. Rudnick has already earned many a healthy laugh with his plays Poor Little Lambs and I Hate Hamlet and his comic essays in Vanity Fair and Spy. Jeffrey, though, is a real tonic. It's a wonderful comedy about a rancid tragedy: the crape of death hanging over any gay guy who is crazy about...
...made use of her law degree from George Washington University, before moving on to Esquire and the New Republic. Since joining TIME in 1988, she has written in-depth profiles of personalities ranging from presidential candidates Bill Clinton, Jerry Brown and Pat Buchanan to actress Katharine Hepburn and comic Billy Crystal. "The challenge is to find the politics in Billy Crystal and the humor in Bill Clinton," she says. Her most recent subject was the relationship between Bill and Hillary Clinton, in an article that ran in the Man of the Year issue...
...tiny "Oouuu," then slapping his knees as if to contain the pain again, then letting go another tiny "Oouuu," then looking up and saying slowly, "It's been a while. I should be able to get through this. It's not like it happened yesterday." Then, with perfect comic timing: "Makeup...
Vonnie Roemer adds to the list of well-played comic types as a tantrum-prone schoolgirl and as a she-male dominatrix. David McMahon, as Gratiana, pulls off a lurid parody of the indolent housewife, and so it goes...
...that differs from the rest in its scope is Vindice. Tonto Silverado faces an uphill struggle with this brooding, intense character. As the central character, Vindice is less a striking caricature than a constant factor in the drama. But even Silverado gets a chance to produce a brief fantastic comic sketch like the others when Vindice impersonates an ingratiating pimp...