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This achievement, he adds, "cannot be overstated." - By Anastasia Toufexis. Reported by Meg Grant/Los Angeles
...ByEllieMcGrath. Reported by Patricia Delaney/Washington and Meg Grant/Los Angeles
Reported by Meg Grant/Los Angeles and Amamath Singh/New York
...while the play is undeniably designed to elicit laughter over tears it is not without a message. The importance of family fealty operates aa a recurrent theme throughout the drama as the likelihood of Babe's downfall heightens the need for people to pursue their dreams. When Meg bitterly assails herself and her family for her foiled singing career, and Lenny whines on about being a victim of a psychological aberration, both sisters muster the courage to "go for it." It is this triumph of will, of determination not to repeat their mother's easy way out, that enables Babe...
...alien being here is Chloe (Meg Tilly), Alex's ex-girlfriend, a decade younger and more limber, monitoring the action with eyes that have seen it all and ain't telling. You have to make eye contact with this wonderful ensemble of actors; the pregnant or averted glances they exchange constitute a geometry of tangled passions. JoBeth Williams can say more by directing her big sad eyes off-screen than volumes of Emily Dickinson; in Mary Kay Place's squint is the weather-beaten humor of a career woman who wants an emergency jolt of motherhood; William...