monday, november 1, 2010


THEATER REVIEW


Fringe stuff “Susurrus,” from the famed Edinburgh festival, is on tap here. C3


3LIVE TODAY @ washingtonpost.com/discussions Robin Givhan on Washington’s dowdy fashion reputation. 11 a.m. • Talk About Travel with The Post’s Travel editors and writers. Noon “


Style ABCDE C K S


Tucker hasn’t lost her spirit or grounded her stratospheric voice, but she seemed more


herself when singing other people’s songs.” — Mark Jenkins in his review of the Corin Tucker Band at the Black Cat. C2


THEATER REVIEW


Gospel and drollery At the Lincoln Theatre, the witty, gospel-based musical “Sanctified” with Jessica Frances Dukes, left. C2


Online accusation dogs former VP’s son in House run


Ben Quayle, gossip guy?


by Monica Hesse in phoenix


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e is a different kind of handsome than his handsome father. He takes after his mother, with dark, swirly curls, a lithe build and a loose way of walking, like a


marathon runner. He looks people in the eye when he talks to them, as if he’s both trustworthy and trusting, and he thinks — as he made perfectly clear in a campaign ad a few months ago — that Barack Obama is the worst president in the world. Ben Quayle, the son of former vice president Dan Quayle and the Repub- lican candidate for Arizona’s 3rd Con- gressional District, is addressing the crowd at Politics on the Rocks, a month- ly social gathering for Phoenix conserva- tives. “We have a housing crisis in Arizona,” he tells his rapt audience in the chichi hotel ballroom. “But I really do think there’s one more foreclosure that needs to be made. Foreclosing on Nancy Pelo- si’s House of Representatives!” His wife, Tiffany, wears a fashionable blue party dress and an adoring smile. She appears with him in ads and photos on his Web site, a world in which they are always volunteering, playing with their nieces, walking their rescue dog and talking about their values and hopes for an America they firmly believe in. They are nice people. Good people. Consistently unsurprising people.


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STEPPING UP: Ben Quayle, far right at top, after his father was elected vice president in 1988, and with wife Tiffany, above, at a campaign rally. Quayle denies allegations that he was once a racy columnist for a nightlife Web site.


From NBC, a hilarious look back at ‘SNL’s’ female crew


TOM SHALES On TV


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hile fans of “Saturday Night Live” wait for the show to gel in a so-far unsettled and


uncertain new season, NBC dives back into archives for another prime-time retrospecial, this one devoted to “The Women of ‘Saturday Night Live’ ” in all their hilarious glory. Or much of it, anyway. To sweeten the proposition, the special (at 9 on Channel 4) begins with a new, seven-minute sketch lampooning those “Real Housewives” reunion shows as seen on the batty Bravo cable network. Andy Cohen, the actual host of those shows, plays himself


READY TO ROMP:Tina Fey, Molly Shannon, Kristen Wiig.


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as do “The Real Women of SNL,” a luminous group that includes such stalwarts of seasons past as Julia Louis-Dreyfus (piped in from Los Angeles), Cheri Oteri, Ana Gasteyer, Molly Shannon, Maya Rudolph, Rachel Dratch, Tina Fey and the outspoken Nora Dunn. A more correct title for the special would be “The Living Women of


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Any witches here? It’s scary time at the White House THE RELIABLE SOURCE


Roxanne Roberts and Amy Argetsinger


But it was fun: For the second year in a row, the Obamas transformed 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. for the haunted holiday. No costume this year for Michelle


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Obama, who last year turned out as a cat. The first lady instead wore a bright orange cardigan over a shimmering orange top, while the president appeared to be dressed as, well, a suburban dad, in a gray sweater and slacks. Along with first mother-in-law Marian Robinson, they stood on the North Portico and gave each trick-or- treater a box of M&Ms, a butter cookie made by White House pastry chef Bill Yosses and . . . a serving of dried fruit. But of course: a nod to Michelle


Obama’s healthy-eating-and-exercise campaign to combat childhood obesity. It came up again as White House staff


ompared with Tuesday’s midterms, Halloween at the White House wasn’t all that scary.


JASON REED/REUTERS NO COSTUME?The president and the first lady dish out candy to visitors.


got ready to wrap things up, and a few dillydallying kids made a last-minute dash up the driveway to collect their treats from the Obamas. “Run!” said the first lady. Joked the president: “This is the ‘Let’s Move’ method of trick-or-treating.”


No sign of the first kids, alas, though the president told reporters on Air Force One earlier in the day that Sasha would be dressing as a turkey. Children from military families and


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