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Moving easily between hostility and flirtatiousness, Grad and Martin-Smith achieve a fine rapport as well as a credible relationship. Furthermore, they never exaggerate their Southern accents or overdo the comic antics...
...which prohibits "unreasonable searches and seizures." Robert Tobias, president of the National Treasury Employees Union, complains that the guidelines imply federal workers are "potential cheats." Says Tobias, whose union has succeeded at least temporarily, in forcing the U.S. Customs Service to halt its drug- testing program: "This is a comic exercise in Ty-D-bol justice...
...what she does uniquely well? Perhaps because Hollywood just now does not care to see the blowsy, pug-beautiful singer, alone and proud on the screen. Instead it wants a Bette Midler like the woman she plays in Ruthless People: bound and blindfolded and sending out comic danger signals. Illuminating these undemanding comedies uses about one green fingernail's worth of her gift...
...just everything goes wrong. Durang's sharpest dialogue is buried under layers of ambient sound. Scenes are diced until they lose all comic momentum. The cast moves like clubfooted puppets; they would be more fun if they had been photographed watching the Weather Channel. Beyond Therapy also suffers from something like pestilential bad timing. It is, after all, the story of a bisexual guy waffling between his mistress and his male lover. Durang, who has made wondrous mock of such sacred institutions as Roman Catholicism, child rearing and the Hollywood musical, might have considered confronting the last taboo by updating...
Davis Robinson is the artistic director of the troupe and although he clearly runs the show, he never steals the spotlight from the other members. The presentation is democratic and refreshingly so because each troupe member dispatches his comic responsibilities with skill and apparent ease...