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COUCHED CONDOLENCES

COUCHED CONDOLENCES ‘Rabbit Hole’ and David Lindsey-Abair’s One Degree of Separation by CRISTOFER GROSS While enjoying David Lindsay-Abaire’s ‘Rabbit Hole’ (at the Geffen through October 13, 2006), the stand-up comedy of Albert Brooks came to mind. Before he started making films in the mid-70s, Brooks, like Steve Martin, was creating comedy not by telling jokes,

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COUNTER INTUITIVE

COUNTER INTUITIVE A new play and questions of maintaining discipline Nighthawks, sang Tom Waits on his 1975 live recording, ‘at the diner of Emma’s Forty-Niner, there’s a rendezvous of strangers around the coffee urn tonight.” That sketchy nod to the frozen loneliness of Edward Hopper’s 1942 painting was a palatable bit of extra-disciplinary referencing. But

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