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Written by Rivers with collaborators Erin Sanders and Lonny Price, the play is based on the life of comedian Lenny Bruce's mother, whom Rivers met in a Las Vegas coffee shop eight years ago. Deserted by her husband on their wedding night, Marr, already pregnant, became a so-so stand-up comic while she raised her son in a gay boardinghouse. When Lenny died of a drug overdose in 1966, she was left destitute and in charge of his only daughter...
...business profits, you name it; figures released last week showed them all marching ahead. Even the few contrary reports needed qualification. New- home sales dropped a bit in October from a blistering September pace, but sales of used homes hit a 14-year high. November retail-sales gains were only so-so, which might be a bad omen for the all important Christmas season. But simultaneously, consumer confidence, as measured by the Conference Board, a business-research group, jumped 11 points in November to an index number of 72.2, still relatively low but the highest since January...
...three said they make "so-so" money from performing, but certainly more than from a minimum wage job. The trio was unable to provide specific figures for their daily takes...
...Rodgers and Hammerstein were geniuses. Ethel Merman's voice was powerful, sure, and powerfully annoying. Each new Andrew Lloyd Webber musical seems like an ice show putting on airs, Siegfried and Roy with bathos. To a majority of people under 50, I'm convinced, the formal conceit of musicals (a so-so play during which the actors inexplicably sing their hearts out every 10 minutes) is both corny and surreal, like some unpleasant crossbreed of Salvador Dali and Norman Rockwell. We don't buy it, and we haven't bought it since Mary Poppins. Our disbelief refuses to suspend...
...obvious cases where good teachers are letgo early are more than compensated for [by thefact that] so-so teaching was allowed tocontinue," Buell said. "[In a more lenientsystem,] are you going to chop the head off ofrespectable mediocrity? The odds are that you'regoing to reserve the axe for blatant cases...