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For the most part, the Catholic Church uses two treatment centers in America for pedophiliac priests: St. Luke Institute in Maryland and the facility operated by the Servants of the Paraclete in Jemez Springs, New Mexico. At St. Luke the regimen involves breaking down denial and incorporates 12-step programs...
Broken Glass revisits familiar Miller terrain. The era is the Depression, the battleground is a Jewish family, the ugly rumbling offstage is the rise of Adolf Hitler. The mainspring of the play is the paralysis that Sylvia Gellburg suffers in her legs, which has no apparent physical cause. Is it...
Despite Klein's fame, virtually the only place to read about him has been in fawning profiles commissioned by the glossy magazines that depend on him for ads. As a rich, handsome man he is a big target, though, and the arrival of a tell-all expose like Obsession: The...
Obsession contains a wealth of fascinating shop talk about the garment industry: endlessly fluctuating deals, shifting alliances and enmities, financial escapades of the riskiest sort. Klein has endured his share of rough times, especially when, with the help of Michael Milken, he issued some junk bonds. Only the generosity of...
This moral complexity is one reason for Marivaux's popularity in a cynical time. Another is his obsession with sex and its consequences. Says artistic director Mark Lamos of Hartford: "We're in an age where we can only talk about sex, not have it. These plays are a roundelay...