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Clea Simon

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Sex on a Summer's Night

N OT Annie Hall, not Love and Death, but certainly not to be sneezed at, A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy


Cool Ibsen at the Loeb

AS THE MERCURY climbs into the nineties and the percentage of relative humidity follows closely behind, sunbathing quickly loses its


Dull Blade

L OS ANGELES in 2019 presents few surprises Traffic trangles are thicker and constant rain has replaced the smog, but


Frogs on Exhibit

W ITH "KOAX-KOAX-KOAX" and a splash, the Fogg Museum sets out to prove the necessity of art with humor and


A Sensitive Sensationalism

"T HE WHOLE PROCESS of writing is rewriting," contends John Gregory Dunne. Working simultaneously on a new novel. The Red


No Surprises

T HE COMMERCIAL SUCCESS of La Cage Aux Folles guaranteed an American imitation. Blake Edwards' attempt-- Victor Victoria, a light,


Southern Belles

I T'S HARD to believe that the South of William Faulkner. Gone With the Wind and the Ku Klux Klan


A Pointless Labyrinth

A FTER 20 YEARS of making feature films, Bernardo Bertolucci should know better. The writer and director of such controversial,