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...Vientiane, once flourishing centers of sin-like the notorious White Rose Café-have been closed down by the puritanical Pathet Lao government. On Rue Setthathirath more than half the shops are shuttered tightly, though not the Large Soviet cultural center on the corner. Rusting hulks of cars and trucks lie at the side of the roads leading out of the city. Even the front garden of the old Royal Palace has fallen into a state of near total disrepair-the King was sent to a reeducation camp...
...charming Rue McClanahan, late of Lear's Maude, stars as a fey woman who, in the Depression, hires an entire family out of the want ads. Why? Never mind. Suffice it to say that there are a lot of F.D.R. and Anna May Wong jokes. Among the unruly supporting players, Dabney Coleman is refreshingly laid back as the heroine's hired fella, but the gifted Jack Gilford is squandered as a crochety blind grandpa. Someone should put Apple Pie back in the oven. - Frank Rich
...from which he could not recover their attention. But, of course, the absence of wit does not necessarily betoken seriousness; it merely betokens the absence of wit. All Allen really had to avoid was farce. We could have accepted, as a logical outgrowth of his work to date, the rue and irony of a full-scale comedy of middle-class manners, a sympathetically satirical study of the lies by which many of us attempt to sustain life and sanity...
...could he refuse? After Robert Rue, president of Mohegan, and Creative Writing Teacher Jim Coleman had decided on the contest, Rue sent Asimov a communiqu...
Notices to 3,300 colleges and universities, plus a wire-service story, brought the limericks rolling in. "The limerick," explained Rue, "is a non-threatening art form. People will write a limerick when poetry would scare the hell out of them." Members of the Mohegan community got together for one ten-hour limericking marathon to choose 86 finalists for Asimov...