HANNAH DAVIS Chicago Theatre Company Something is missing from Hannah Davis. On the surface this play seems to have all the ingredients for a satisfying piece of naturalistic theater. The characters are dynamic, interesting, and often at each other’s throats. The plot revolves around the ailing father of four successful children who spends his final […]
Tag: Vol. 19 No. 6
Issue of Nov. 23 – 29, 1989
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Pork and Beans
“We don’t turn nobody away,” declares the Reverend Freddie Henderson. “I always tell people they shouldn’t be ashamed of being on aid. At least they have something. There have been times when I didn’t know where my next meal was coming from. I’ve been hungry myself. I don’t forget.” It’s 10 on a Saturday morning, […]
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Bringing In Britton; Our Man in Washington
Bringing In Britton Editing the Chicago Sun-Times was a job that Dennis Britton didn’t seek and couldn’t turn down for pretty much the same reason. The reason was the agony he went through in 1988, when Tom Johnson, then publisher of the Los Angeles Times, declared a nakedly open competition for editor of that paper. […]
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Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle
Four tales about Reinette (Joelle Miquel), a country girl who paints and operates according to certain principles, and Mirabelle (Jessica Forde), her less rigorous friend from the city; they meet in the country in the first episode, and share an apartment in Paris during the remaining three. This feature was shot in 16-millimeter by Eric […]
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Lamb and Limas
What does the Frugal Gourmet order after a long day in the prop kitchen?
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The Adding Machine
THE ADDING MACHINE Hystopolis Puppet Theatre Puppet shows for adults are not without precedent, although we tend to think of them as kiddie fare nowadays. In recent history the Bobby Clark puppet troupe attempted to stage adult revues with marionettes (a curvaceous marionette doing a striptease is about as adult as you can get), but […]
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News of the Disgusting
To the editors: In Section Three of the Reader of Nov. 3, 1989, was a column headed “News of the Weird” by Chuck Shepherd. Mr. Shepherd reported that a school in Odessa, Missouri, dissected kittens, removed their intestines, tied them together & jumped them as if they were jumping rope. There is nothing funny in […]
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Beau Jest
BEAU JEST Victory Gardens Theatre Anyone who goes to James Sherman’s latest play expecting yet another attempt to milk the Jewish experience for some shallow sitcom-style yuks (a la Sherman’s smarmy hit The God of Isaac) will be sorely disappointed. On the surface Beau Jest covers the same details and rituals of Jewish life that […]
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Clean Conscience
To the editors: Did anyone think to invite Jim Northcutt [“The Rag Man of Lincoln Park,” November 3] home to take a shower? or did they just keep on smelling him? Joy Calhoun Glen Ellyn
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The Straight Dope
I heard aphids are born pregnant. Is this true? If so, how does it work? –Lilian Wentworth, Silver Spring, Maryland You think your life is miserable, cucumber, just be glad you’re not an aphid. Not only are they born pregnant, they’re pregnant without benefit of sex. Not that sex with an aphid sounds like much […]
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More on the Rag Man
To the editors: Isn’t it ironic and somewhat symbolic that Jim Northcutt [“The Rag Man of Lincoln Park,” November 3] should have died on Feb. 29? Here was a man, whom others probably wished or pretended didn’t exist when he was alive, who passed from this life on a day which exists only once every […]
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The City File
Caution: may be armed with needle and thread. Robert Busse of River Forest, one of six craftspeople demonstrating their arts in the State of Illinois Center on December 8, makes tatted snowflake ornaments and bills himself as the “Mad Tatter.” “Terminating the franchise doesn’t mean putting Edison out of business in Chicago,” write Scott Bernstein […]
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Edgewater Beach Characters
To the editors: Re: “Edgewater Beach Memories” [November 10] True, “Eloise” didn’t live in the Edgewater Beach Hotel, but “Patrick Dennis” did, before his father died and left him in the custody of Auntie Mame of Beekman Place (New York, not Chicago). Nina Gaspich N. Ashland PS: I wish you would have included more photos, […]
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Alaska Update
To the editors: I enjoyed reading Harold Henderson’s article last week on our local environmentalist volunteers [“Swamp Squad,” November 3]. It reminded me of my own experiences earlier this year, getting to know the Alaskan volunteers who were trying to do whatever they could to remedy the Exxon Valdez oil spill. The motive seems to […]