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...fast as anyone will take them. Diane Wiest is hilarious as the ridiculous Sinclair, speaking and moving as if she were an alcoholic Lady Macbeth who'd be king herself rather than any dopey husband. Late to the first rehearsal, she intones, with terrible drama: "My pedicurist had a stroke!" (as he was doing her left foot, she thunders, "the pain was terrible"). She overacts so gorgeously that when she apostrophizes Shayne ("O pungent, seething artist!") the ludicrousness of the line is not too much for her to carry off. Even Rob Reiner (as the crusty, unsuccessful playwright Sheldon Flender...
...Trouble in the World (Grove/Atlantic; 340 pages; $22), P.J. O'Rourke's look at "the lighter side" of overpopulation, famine, ecological disaster and other global environmental woes, the reader begins to wonder whether somewhere between writing Republican Party Reptile and this latest effort the author suffered a stroke. Left intact are O'Rourke's accustomed descriptive flair and facility for throwaway lines -- " 'dying like flies' is not a simile you'd use in Somalia. The flies wax prosperous and lead full lives." Gone, however, is any faculty for building an argument...
Actor Raul Julia, best known as the political prisoner Valentin in the film version of Manuel Puig's novel "Kiss of the Spider Woman,"died today in a Long Island hospital -- a week after suffering a stroke. Julia's career began with Shakespeare and included turns on Broadway (the 1982 musical "Nine") and 18 film roles. Among them: the suave Gomez in two "Addams Family" movies, and assassinated Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero...
Many Harvard students find the stream of tourists to be a stroke of misfortune...
Tara Lamb, a Cornell senior, scored the game-winner on a penalty stroke...