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...After all, when one of Eric Ambler's down-at-the-heels protagonists makes a dodgy border crossing, the tension is palpable. Readers know that if the policeman in the greasy uniform were a shade more intelligent, he would realize that the hero's accent is bogus, his passport fake. An author who sees himself in boardroom costume, however, seems unlikely to grasp the concepts of weary connivance that nourish the standard thriller...
...gave him class; he gave her sexy roles. Sigourney played a murderous multiple schizophrenic Electra figure in Durang's Titanic, a woman who dates a bisexual analysand in Beyond Therapy. Together they wrote and performed Das Lusitania Songspiel, a deliciously rancid Brecht-meets-Broadway parody, and Naked Lunch, a fake interview with Voracious Starlet Sigourney Weaver that, in expanded form, may soon be a major motion picture. "She is a very strong collaborator," says Durang. "The furthest-out ideas come from Sigourney. I, however, type faster." Of their paldom, Weaver says, "We have so much fun ( together. Our friendship...
...effort to snip the budding fake identification industry, the state Registry of Motor Vehicles plans to add extra safeguards designed to prevent those under 21 years old from using altered licenses to buy liquor...
Cambridge liquor store owners welcomed the change. "It's going to be easier to identify fakes right away," said Gary Locke, the manager of the Harvard Provision Company. Locke said his store "is very tough" on fake identification cards and can recognize most fakes...
...many fake i.d.'s are confiscated by bar and liquor store owners. Employees receive a $100 bounty for each fake license they bring to police, Locke said...