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...cast makes it crackle. Ciaran Hinds (the only London holdover) smartly navigates Larry's sometimes improbable swings of temperament; Rupert Graves is pub-crawlingly plausible as Dan; and Anna Friel, as the waifish Alice, is the most appealing new face on Broadway this season. Richardson invests Anna's elegant exterior with shadows of vulnerability, delivers gag lines with dry panache and raises the electricity level just by striding onstage. And yet, amazingly, her star wattage never outshines the ensemble. Now that's a career move...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Sex in the Trauma Ward | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

...OCCUPATION: waifish British supermodel BEST PUNCH: Former Johnny Depp squeeze reportedly called Schiffer's engagement to magician David Copperfield "phony and tasteless," suggesting they were really in love with each other's fame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 29, 1999 | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...staging of the tragedy from London to Broadway, says he was thinking of events in Bosnia: Can the cycle of vengeance ever end? Yet he resists the urge to add modern complexities to this fiercely singleminded play. Enough to watch the talented Zoe Wanamaker as a very human, almost waifish Electra, buried in a gigantic overcoat, like the mantle of fate that impels this timeless play forward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Electra | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

...hear you crying just for me." Didn't know Depeche Mode had it in them. Indeed they do not have it in them to be vicious. Moody yes, violent no. "Stripped" is probably the worst track in the set. Whining about hurting people doesn't really fly--waifish Brits turned savage just comes across as silly, not impressive...

Author: By Eliot Schrefer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Decade of Depeche: Rarely In Fashion | 10/30/1998 | See Source »

...Bridges' noncommittal ways or of nasty evildoers from whom they need Y-chromosome-enhanced protection. Prostitutes in danger turn up on both shows, looking not at all as they do on the streets of the grittiest precincts in urban America, or even as they do on NYPD Blue. Waifish and fresh-faced, they resemble well-educated publishing assistants saving up for a smart twin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: MANNIX LIVES! | 4/8/1996 | See Source »

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