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I Starring: Barbra Streisand, Jeff
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I Directed by: Barbra Streisand
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personality exists.
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Biing from the boisterous counter to a
shy soul or the manic depressive oppo-
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fl combination of the two to live with.
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Jeff Bridges plays Gregory Larkin, a
professor of mathematics also teach
ing at Columbia University, who is
searching for a relationship of simple
^companionship, with absolutely no
sexual connections.
The two teach at the same universi-
|“ty, but they do not “bump into each
other” by the cinematic definition.
Instead, Rose’s sister Claire, played
by Mimi Rogers, helps Rose and Gre
gory meet.
With Rose looking for romance and
Gregory wanting only a committed
friendship, the audience looks into one
of the most awkward on-screen rela
tionships ever performed, one almost
too weird to comprehend.
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Rose wants passion in her life, yet she
settles for a man who vows to never at
tempt to find her physically attractive.
While some may think opposites at
tract, the characters of Rose and Grego
ry are so paradoxical it’s a wonder how
they came together in the first place.
Make no mistake, the acting in the
film is at times refreshing, but there are
moments when the dialogue is too dry
to swallow.
Lauren Bacall, who plays Rose’s
mother Hannah, delivers cleverly
placed one-liners which provide most
of the film’s comedy.
Bacall gives a realistic performance of
how mothers can be once they forget
what it was like to be someone’s daughter.
Streisand and Bridges are also true
to their parts as both give the audience
a look into the lives of two people
thrown together by deception but
bound together by emotions stronger
than love.
This film represents another directing
endeavor for Streisand, but it doesn’t
measure up to the heartfelt emotions in
her 1991 film The Prince of Tides.
While the story is borderline inven
tive and the acting is plausible, The
Mirror Has Two Faces walks a thin line
between an acceptable and recycled
love scripts. C+ James Francis
Barbra Streisand and Jeff Bridges play
professors with different ideas of rela
tionships in The Mirror Has Two Faces.
A Redneck Christmas
Rednecks reign supreme in tiny Tuna, and two seasoned actors
portray its entire population in A Tuna Christmas.
By April Towery
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T una, Texas, is a fictional town where
the Lions Club is considered too
liberal, every resident owns a gun
rack, and men wear high heels.
Brent Briscoe and Greg Currie, the
stars of the OPAS production A Tuna
Christmas, began wearing high heels and
performing both male and female char
acters together in 1995. The comedy is a
sequel to A Greater Tuna, another story of
the eccentrics and rednecks of Tuna.
The play is directed by one of its
writers, Ed Howard, and will be per
formed in over 20 cities during this tour.
Briscoe will portray characters rang
ing from Bertha Bumiller, who says her
husband is “more useless than ice trays
in hell,” to UFO sighter R.R. Snavely.
Briscoe said he is anxious about per
forming in College Station.
“It may be what I had to eat, but at
some point in the show I’m probably
going to get nervous,” Briscoe said.
Currie, a native of Missouri, or as he
calls it, “Misery,” said one of the ways to
ease the nervousness of performing on
stage is to create humor.
“If we don’t have fun, what’s the
point?” he said. “Hopefully, we can
make other people laugh more than
ourselves.”
Briscoe and Currie have often re
hearsed the transitions from character
to character.
“We do 11 or 12 characters each, so
you don’t have time to think, period,”
he said. “You just have to get out there
and make sure you know it.”
Briscoe’s and Currie’s television
backgrounds helped them learn char
acterization. Briscoe has appeared in
the television series Evening Shade,
Hearts Afire and Knots Landing. Currie
has performed in the Showtime
movies, Murder Among Friends and
The Country Girl.
Briscoe said acting on stage is more
fun than acting on television.
“In TV, you’re not under the pres
sure,” he said. “If you screw up, you
can shoot it again. In a play, the audi
ence is like a third character to us.”
Currie said he prefers performing in A
Tuna Christmas than to A Greater Tuna.
Brent Briscoe and Greg Currie portray women and men in A Tuna Christ
mas, playing tomorrow at 3 p.m.and 8 p.m. at Rudder Auditorium.
“Greater Tuna was written as a sar
castic, small-minded piece,” Currie
said. “A Tuna Christmas was written
about the relationships between char
acters. It shows their emotions — how
they hurt and laugh. It has the satire be
cause they hate in a very Christian way.”
The authors of the plays are threat
ening to write another story of Tuna,
Red, White and Tuna, set on the Fourth
of July. Currie said the play will proba
bly be written as soon as the three
writers can get together and spend time
working on it.
Although the stars are making plans
to perform in other plays, their main fo
cus is A Tuna Christmas.
“You can’t breathe tomorrow’s air
until you’ve seen it,” Currie said.
OPAS Student Committee chair and
senior speech communications major
Suzannah Taylor said she is thrilled to
have the play in Aggieland.
“It is one of the most produced
shows right now,” she said. “It has been
popular in this area for a while. I’m
looking forward to it because it will get
everyone in the holiday spirit.”
Briscoe and Currie plan to do more
with the show than inspire holiday spir
it, and for those who have never seen
the performance, there may be a sur
prise in store.
Currie said once he gets in his groove,
there is no telling what will happen.
“Four-inch pumps make you feel a
certain way,” he said.
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