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Want to share in the sweaty embraces of Alec Baldwin and Jessica Lange? They are entwined in A Streetcar Named Desire. Prefer the wry wit of Alan Alda or the in-your-face comic angst of Judd Hirsch? They play beleaguered husbands and failed fathers in splendid new tragicomedies from Neil Simon and Herb Gardner. If your taste runs to grandes dames, Rosemary Harris enacts the mean matriarch in Simon's previous play, Lost in Yonkers, while Lynn Redgrave evokes the aggrieved wife of a self-anointed genius in Ibsen's The Master Builder...
...Keeffe. In the oversize Polaroids that Wegman started making in the late 1970s, Man Ray can be found patiently enduring whatever new conceit his master would visit on him. Dusted in flour, tricked up as an elephant, wrapped head to toe in Christmas-tree garlands, he had the comic gravity of Buster Keaton and the acrobatic ambiguities of a four-legged pun. The pictures made Wegman, until then a lesser-known Conceptualist, the kind of artist who gets invited on Carson and Letterman. Four years after Man Ray died in 1982, Wegman acquired Fay Ray, a chocolaty female...
...started making deadpan videos of himself spraying an entire can of deodorant into his armpit. When his new Weimaraner got into the act, Wegman recognized that it was enough to tape the puppy doing something as simple as trying to extract a biscuit from a glass bottle. As a comic deflation of the doggedness of human endeavor, Man Ray's tireless noodling with his bottle ranks as a bit of theater that Samuel Beckett might have enjoyed...
...other times he falls behind and is just a kid who pulls out a comic book to read or a portable video game to play when he grows bored during meetings with studio executives or interviews with journalists. One is reminded that, though he may be successful and street-smart, he is hardly sophisticated: his appearance at last year's Cannes Film Festival was the first time in his life he had been outside...
...while they might not have experienced religious epiphany, they certainly found comic relief from their midterms, these and job applications...