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...villain? Why, he's as broadly written (by Tony Gilroy) and played (by David Strathairn) as anyone who ever twirled a wickedly waxed moustache. A drunk and a wife beater, Joe St. George is Dolores' husband and Selena's father-so suspiciously sweet with the latter that we know long before we're told that he lusted unnaturally for her when she was a child and is the source of her repressed memories--and more than deserves the bad end Dolores arranges...
...season of high promises, broken: To such fallen stars as Brian Friel, Jule Styne and Frank Gilroy, add David Rabe (Streamers, Hurlyburly), whose own off-Broadway staging of his logy Those the River Keeps went down faster than a victim of the Mob hit men it portrayed...
When playwright Frank D. Gilroy made his Broadway debut in 1964 with The Subject Was Roses, winning the Tony, Pulitzer and New York Drama Critics Circle awards for best play, he seemed to be starting a glittering career. But he has never come close to that glory since. Presumably that is why he has returned to the Roses characters in Any Given Day, his first play in 14 years to reach Broadway. The new work is worthy enough, with more characters and a richer plot than Roses, and is handsomely mounted and capably performed by a cast including Sada Thompson...
Alas, the competent production only underscores the root of Gilroy's problem: he is writing a no-longer-fashionable form, family melodrama, and is unable -- as indeed, he was unable even in Roses, for all its acute observation -- to invest middle-class conflict with enough poetry or subtext to have it mean more than the surface struggle. This kind of storytelling is now done by TV movies of the week...
Richardson press secretary David Gilroy Countered yesterday that Shamie has tried to focus on the tax issue to detract attention from Richardson's proposals for a nuclear freeze, conflict prevention, and environmental issues. But he added, "Taxes are obviously a very emotional issue...