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Unfortunately, the following nine weeks were filled with far too little theater, as my Washington schedule kept me busy and even caused me to miss a production at the Signature Theater of the Sondheim revue Putting it Together. I was able, though, to catch an outdoor production of King Lear that made me pray for rain—and when it didn’t come—forced me to the car at intermission, making the second show in my life, but also the second this summer, that I simply couldn’t endure past intermission. Mixing...
...Elian Gonzalez gave good value in the category of cute kids with international poignancy. Clinton/Lewinsky, with Ken Starr ably pouring on the prurience and Republicans contributing the incompetent moralism, competed with O.J. for title of overall best - in the way that Hamlet and Lear may vie in people's minds for greatest Shakespeare play...
...only let the fire burn too hot during the boom but threw too much water on it when he decided to cool it off in May 2000, it's understandable if the Lord is feeling a little added pressure not to wind up his tenure looking like King Lear...
...Archie Bunker was perpetually and evocatively tired: tired from his job, tired from dealing with the new world of strangers that moved into his Queens neighborhood... He put the lump in lumpenproletariat... He was a Reagan Democrat years before anyone knew they existed... Archie was an Astoria King Lear." www.time.com/oconnor...
DIED. CARROLL O'CONNOR, 76, Shakespeare-schooled actor who left an enduring mark on TV history as the coarse but lovable working-class bigot Archie Bunker on Norman Lear's All in the Family (1971-79); of a heart attack; in Culver City, Calif. O'Connor won four Emmy Awards for his portrayal of Archie; he won another for his role as a liberal-minded Southern cop on the NBC drama In the Heat of the Night (1988-94). In his later years, after his drug- and alcohol-addicted son Hugh committed suicide in 1995, O'Connor became an outspoken...