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...Broadway is also attracting top stars and prestige playwrights. This month Vanessa Redgrave opens in Vita and Virginia and the Joseph Papp Public Theater premieres Sam Shepard's Simpatico. In December the Public has a new Hal Prince musical, The Petrified Prince. January brings a trio of one-acters by Woody Allen, David Mamet and Elaine May. Neil Simon, a Broadway pillar for a third of a century, made news recently when he said that mainstem plays had become too expensive to produce. Now even he is off-Broadway bound...
Behind it all, of course, is the estimable Hal Prince. His delineation of character detail remains as telling as ever (contrast Andy's smooth shuffle with Ravenal's hesitant walk), and his handling of crowd scenes is impeccable: a nod here, a gesture there, and a chorus is transformed from a mob into a collection of individuals. There are no haughty white folks and nobly suffering darkies aboard Prince's vessel -- just real people who know that sometimes it's not only make-believe. The beauty of this Show Boat is that it makes believers...
Some killjoys think the states will rue the day that they got carried away by tax-cut fever. The rise in state revenues is not sustainable, says Hal Hovey, editor and publisher of State Budget & Tax News, a bimonthly publication. He believes spending will again be pushed up by "two elephants": Medicaid spending, which will rise once the economy slows, and the severe pressure of rising prison populations. So states, he thinks, will have to either cut other services or raise taxes again, or both. Vermont Governor Howard Dean, chairman of the National Governors Association, thinks momentarily flush states should...
Asteroids are rockier than comets. Yet it is possible for an asteroid to have a halo or a tail, made mostly of dust. Says Hal Weaver of the Space Telescope Institute: "The only real evidence that ((S-L 9 was)) a comet is that it broke apart, and we've never seen that in an asteroid. But maybe this was a fragile asteroid...
...involvement in the Afro-American struggle was directly linked to my concentration," Hal says. "There were no history courses that focused mainly on the African-American experience, none...