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...climax, where all the tangles are unraveled and Love reigns supreme, is even better. The reconciliation of husband and wife, father and daughter, bitter foes, father and long-lost sons, Romans and Britons, master and servant, etc. provides enough humor to make the preceding hours of boredom seem worthwhile. There is even a moment of divine intervention to add the final touch. As an audience member remarked audibly: "It's better than a Saturday Night Live skit...
...callers phone in with the amusing thoughts and opinions we would expect, a random sampling of the minds of the population which make a show like Champlain's popular. Yet amidst this humor are the troubles of modernity--racism, sexism, child abuse, rape, teen pregnancy, drugs, etc. While Bogosian's play is comic, its intention is in no way farcical. The problems of the culture exemplified in talk radio are of course very real, and the people treat seriously their calls and the opinions expressed in the show...
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...deportation of a single rioter the subject (as it was for the first year of the intifadeh, before it became a media bore) of front-page news, of emergency Security Council meetings, of full-page ads in the New York Times, of pained editorials about Israel's lost soul, etc., etc...
...Oren Izenberg, tells the story of Belle Bottoms (Peter Ferren), whose "pad is going condo" so she has to come up with the "dinero" or she'll lose her "spread." Belle brings her '70s gang of friends back to 1875 in order to find her great-great-great-etc. grandmother Lady Ophelia Bottoms and retrieve the long-lost family fortune...