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U.S. politician of the
past.
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6 Tarot card
numbered XIII
11 “There ___ God!”
14 Find despicable
15 Sleep issue
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17 Tommy Lee
Jones’s role in
“Lonesome Dove”
19 ___-hoo
(chocolate drink
since 1928)
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Halep, sayPrevious Puzzle’s Solution21 Opposite of
paleo-
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(1948 comedy
film)
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cartoonist
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flag features the
Thunder Dragon
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originally played
by Willard Scott
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film titles
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by Martin Luther
King47 Played a part
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49 Grammy winner
for “Ain’t That
Lonely Yet”
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command
54 F follows them
55 Gusto
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it...”
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Gigolo” star
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knowledge
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theology school
is named for
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founder
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wind
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functional
4 Yard material
5 Screw up
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Dominique
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“The Seas with
Nemo & Friends”
8 Carrier to Tokyo
9 ___ Aviv
10 Fluorine or
chlorine, e.g.
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suggestion
12 Summer
Olympics host
before Barcelona
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23 “The Big Easy”
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the “L”
25 Computer that
said “Affirmative,
Dave. I read you.”
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Gormé
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(John Wayne
movie)
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to
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volatile
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for short
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outsider status,
in modern lingo
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worker
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Raptors games
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England
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“Zeus”
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(invigorates)
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“Not that anyone
asked, but...”
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worker
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ASSOCIATED PRESS (2)
‘Cola Wars’:
What’s in Your
Glass?
IS THE NOSTALGIA-FLAVORED“Cola Wars” a case of
kicking an industry when it’s down? Hardly. The American
thirst for sugary soft drinks may not be what it used to be.
But as pointed out in History’s quasi-epic of commercial
combat, it doesn’t really matter what beverage you imbibe:
If you buy it, and drink it, Coke or Pepsi probably owns it.
Or will. And that includes the great scam of the 21st cen-
tury, bottled water.
In the mid-’80s, however, the Coke-Pepsi conflict was be-
tween Coke and Pepsi. Did you drink the Real Thing? Or
were you part of the Pepsi Generation? “Remember, we’re
essentially talking about two brown sugar waters,” says one
insider, with what proves to be novel distance: Many of the
present and former higher-ups at the two companies won’t
admit—to this day—that
they’ve eventriedthe other
brand. One stops thinking
“cola” and starts thinking
“cult.” Each time the film-
makers subject a Coke or
Pepsi person to the Pepsi
Challenge (the blind taste
test that was part of a rev-
olutionary ad campaign),
it’s agonizing.
But at its most fero-
cious, the Coke-Pepsi com-
petition had real signifi-
cance. It marked a
watershed moment for con-
frontational advertising,
marketing, product placement—“Back to the Future” now
looks like one long Pepsi commercial—and celebrity en-
dorsements: Michael Jackson’s recruitment by Pepsi (for
what was a then-astounding $5 million) set Coca-Cola exec-
utives’ hair on fire, to say nothing of Mr. Jackson’s.
What made Pepsi so innovative was its precarious position
as No. 2. Coca-Cola was No. 1; Diet Coke No. 3. And there’s an
argument that Pepsi won the war: When Coke came out with
New Coke, or Coke II, in 1985, and removed its classic for-
mula from the shelf, wasn’t it conceding defeat? It was cer-
tainly a debacle. But at the same time, some in the film ar-
gue, Coca-Cola got an enormous boost of free publicity when
it introduced—or reintroduced—Coca-Cola Classic, and grad-
ually eased the “improved” formula into oblivion
One wishes “Cola Wars” took a bit of a snarkier stance
on its subject. The narration is anodyne, and the ingredi-
ents are standard-issue, even if the talking heads are very
smart and the vintage TV commercials will have older
viewers reliving their couch-potato youth. Younger people,
meanwhile, will imagine the Reagan years as one long riot
of big hair and spandex, and ask what kind of world was it
where a war between soda pops could lead the news every
night? Quite arguably, a much sweeter one.Cola Wars
Sunday, 9 p.m., HistoryCans of New Coke and Coca-
Cola Classic, above; Robert C.
Goizueta and Donald R.
Keough of Coca-Cola Co., belowT. CHARLES ERICKSON (2)Laura Darrell and Rhett Guter,
left, and Leenya Rideout,
below, in the Hudson Valley
Shakespeare Festival
production of ‘Into the Woods’LIFE & ARTS
(Leenya Rideout), a wolf (Rhett Guter)
and an unseen giant, is perfect, a mir-
acle of farce-comedy construction that
runs for 90 minutes but feels far
shorter, especially in Ms. Thompson’s
light-footed staging. Not so the second
act, in which we learn that growing up
isn’t easy (stop press!). It is by turns
maudlin and didactic, a combination
that has never brought out the best in
Mr. Sondheim, though Ms. Thompson
is unfazed by the mawkish sentimen-
tality of “No One Is Alone” (“Some-
times people leave you / Halfway
through the
wood/Do
not let itStunning Simplicity
Garrison, N.Y.
THE HUDSON VALLEYShakespeare
Festival, one of the finest outdoor
summer companies on the East Coast,
is now adding musicals to its regular
repertory of plays by Shakespeare and
more modern works in a classical vein.
To this end, Davis McCallum, Hudson
Valley’s artistic director, has brought
in Jenn Thompson, whose Goodspeed
Musicals revivals of “Bye Bye Birdie,”
“The Music Man” and “Oklahoma!”
were of the highest possible quality, to
stage “Into the Woods,” Stephen Sond-
heim’s fractured-fairy-tale parable of
innocence and experience. It’s a logical
choice for a troupe that performs un-
der a spacious tent pitched on a
wooded bluff overlooking the Hudson
River, and the results are a triumph
for all parties concerned. “Into the
Woods” gets done a lot—a whole
lot—but I haven’t seen it done
this well since the original 1987
Broadway production.
The hallmark of Ms. Thomp-
son’s version is its visual sim-
plicity: There is no set, only a
hoop, five green umbrellas, a
few wooden chairs and
crates, the plain dirt floor
of the playing area and a
natural backdrop of trees
and sky, all employed
with the utmost re-
sourcefulness. This
makes for a consis-
tency of tone and ten-
sion that helps to pa-
per over the
unevenness of James
Lapine’s book. The first
act, in which Cinderella
(Laura Darrell), Little Red
Riding Hood (Kayla Coleman),
Rapunzel (Kendall Cafaro) and
Beanstalk Jack (Brandon Dial)
are confronted by a witchgrieve you, / No one leaves for good”).
Even the very best productions of
“Into the Woods” thus have a ten-
dency to lose altitude after intermis-
sion—but this one stays exhilarating
from start to finish.
The 14-person ensemble cast is a
mix of satisfyingly familiar faces (Ja-
son O’Connell, Ms. Rideout, Nance Wil-
liamson) and exciting new finds (in
particular Ms. Darrell, the most un-
selfconsciously endearing Cinderella
imaginable). Not only can they all act,
but they can sing, too, negotiating
their demanding vocal parts without a
hint of discomfort. And despite the
fact that Mr. Sondheim’s scores are
notoriously tricky to execute, the four-
piece pit band, led by Amanda Morton,
plays this one with unflappable exacti-
tude. For a company new to musicals
to perform a Sondheim show with
such precision and self-confidence is
supremely impressive.
The audience at Tuesday’s perfor-
mance knew how good a show it was
seeing, and responded accordingly. So
did I. Not for the first
time, I went home from
one of Ms. Thompson’s
productions asking,
“Why has this re-
markable woman
never been invited
to direct a Broad-
way musical?”Into the Woods
Hudson Valley Shakespeare
Festival, Boscobel House and
Gardens, 1601 Route NY-9D,
Garrison, N.Y. ($10-$100),
845-265-9575, closes Sept. 8Mr. Teachout, the Journal’s drama
critic, is the author of “Satchmo at
the Waldorf.” Write to him at
[email protected].THEATER REVIEW|TERRY TEACHOUT