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...vaudeville routines. At the start of Act II, Murray chides the audience for coming in late and replays the last five minutes of Act I. (It's no better the second time.) He even mimics a female theatergoer complaining that the line for the ladies' room is too long. Odd, since at the off-Broadway theater where "The Play About the Baby" is running, the ladies' room was surprisingly uncrowded; it was the men's room line that snaked through the lobby. Albee even got that wrong...
...school obviously has values, and it obviously wishes to impart those values to its students. How odd then that it would choose values that seem antithetical, or at least benignly neutral, to its mission. How many "future leaders" will change their behavior in the years ahead as a result of what they learned in S&E? From wide discussions with classmates, the answer is a resounding "none." On the other hand, I would wager that many students will accept as unequivocal truth a trickle-down theory of charity...
...every once in a while I'll catch myself watching 20-year-olds that I don't know personally, on MTV or the like, and I think of how old they look. These are adults. They do the same stuff I do. Therefore, I'm an adult. How odd...
...Following the rich tradition that flows from Charles Foster Kane to Layla, RUSSELL CROWE, in his guise as rock star, has written a song that may say everything, or nothing, about his relationship with Proof of Life co-star Meg Ryan. Wendy, written for Crowe's band 30 Odd Foot of Grunts, contains the lyrics, "Wendy's got a little boy/Someone to keep in mind for the future/She's got no husband who cares," and "Now don't you put her down/She tried to do it right/Sometimes things don't come out/Quite, quite, quite the way we plan them...
...daughters from a former marriage. Ruth works at their home in San Francisco as an editor, which sometimes means ghostwriter, of popular self-help manuals. When people ask if she wants to write on her own instead of polishing the work of other people, Ruth says no. "In an odd way, Ruth now thought, her mother was the one who had taught her to be a book doctor. She had to make life better by revising...