Plus-Size–the New Euphemism for Fat?
The Freaky Friday analogy–in this case, as premise for Lifetime's summer series, Drop Dead Diva, it's blond bombshell trades places with any-euphemism-for-fat lawyer–seems tired before it begins. Pitched as a dippy-meets-dumpy or brains versus...something really neato, if you're into poker
On and off, I play poker online. Three weeks ago, while playing, I was looking up the players I was sitting with on the ole webbarooni (not worth going into, but there are ways to research your opponents as you play them) and saw that one of them, Amir Lehavot...
StageStruck: The Hills Are Alive
In this summer of economic discontent, more theaters are turning to the time-tested ingredients of summer stock: comedies and musicals. I'll be covering a clutch of laff-vehicles next week, but first, three pieces of musical theater that couldn't be more...
Stage Struck: Ripped From the Headlines
One pits small-town values against big-city greed. The other takes an almost Freudian view of religious fundamentalism. One is a comedy with a cynical stone in its sentimental heart, the other a hard-edged drama of ideas with a rather soft-centered message.Both of...E-Edition
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