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Execution: The Guillo-
tine, the Pendulum, the
Thousand Cuts and 66 Oth-
erWaysof PuttingSomeone
toDeath (St. Martin'sPress,
$23.95)
Author Geoffrey Abbott
makes a killing as he slices
and dices -in pretty grue-
some detail -everything
[you perhaps never wanted
;toknowabout capitalpun-
ishment.Not for the squea-
mish or faint-of-heart, yet
between the broken bones
and fatal blows and club-
bingand boilingand crush-
ing is a fascinating history of mankind at its worst,
illustrating man not kind but mean as hell.
FOR THE RECORD
Divine Goddesses (Mu-
sicrama)
Where do great divas
go when they are down,
dead, tired or retired?
They find life after their
label, thanks to Musicra-
ma'sjaw-droppingthree-
disc collection. Where do
we start? The 69 tracks
includejust about every-
oneweworship... Shirley
Bassey,PetulaClark,Judy
Garland,TammyWynette,EthelMerman,SarahVaughan,
Billie Holiday, Mae West, Peggy Lee, Aretha Franklin,
Gloria Gaynor, Gladys Knight, Doris Day, Pearl Bailey,
Rosemary Clooney, Joan Sutherland, Connie Francis,
Lesley Gore, Dionne Warwick, Etta James and Marlene
Dietrich. And that's for starts. Opera, pop, disco, R&B,
dance, soul... the tracks are pure camp and/or purely
classic. There are some tunes we know even die-hard
musiclovers willhavenever heard of,such asBette Davis
warbling "Turn Me Loose on Broadway" and Tailulah
Bankhead's "You Go To My Head." Divine has never
sounded so, well, divine.
Duets: An Amer-
ica Classics (Co-
lumbia)
Tony Bennett of-
ten told us he sim-
ply wanted to be a
"saloon singer."But
somewhere along
the way, fame and
fortune and great
arrangements and
superb orchestra-
tions got inthe way.
Frankie's gone, Eddie is washed up and no one really
cares about Perry and Jerry. And so Tony has become
the master crooner, the great interpreter of the Great
American Songbook. Here he serves up pairings with
an eclectic array of talent. All are pretty tasty. There's
Michael Buble swingin'with"JustinTime,"John Legend
complimenting Tony on "Sing, YouSinners,"Bono rock-
ingabout smoothly with "I Wanna Be Around."And the
surprises!The Dixie Chicks crooning "Lullaby of Broad-
way," Juanes' samba-style sensibility on "The Shadow
of Your Smile," Paul McCartney's poignant "The Very
Thought ofYou"and JamesTaylor'sjazzed-up "Put on a
Happy Face."And waittillyou get to the desserts-Elvis
Costello, Stevie Wonder, k.d. lang, Elton John, Celine
Dion, Barbra Streisand, George Michael, Tim McGraw,
Diana Krall, Billy Joel. There's even Tony'sreinterepra-
tion of his gem "I Left My Heart in San Francisco"-his
"partner" here is simply a piano. The edition of the CD
sold at Target contains four additional duets, including
one extra with Buble and Krall, and historic takes with
Sinatra and Garland. Play it. Again.
DVD QUICK
PICKS
Beyond the Rocks
(Milestone)
Martin Scorsese raves
that Beyond the Rocks
is "a cause for celebra-
tion -a testament to the
extraordinary artistry of
silent cinema." We add
one word: Amen! When
therestored versionofthe
1922 filmwas screened at
last year's Cannes Film
Festival, it caused quite
the stir . . . not because
it's a great flick (it isn't), but because it's the only big-
screen teaming of two silent stars, Gloria Swanson and
Rudolph Valentino. The plot is creaky Hollywood fare
(boy meets girl but girlis already married to a man she
hates, courtesy of Elinor Glyn, the author who put 'It"
in Clara Bow) and though the Nederlands Filmmuseum
has done a brilliant restoration, the film is irreparably
damaged in a few spots. No matter. Here are Swanson
and Valentinoinhigh-wattagesplendor,with enough sex
appealto make the screen sizzle aswe romp through the
English countryside,the Swiss Alps, Paris, London and
the Sahara Desert.HennyVrienten'sscore adds an extra
glorious note. Yes, they had faces then. They still do.
Rites of passage
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By Bethany Gibbons
arts@barnstablepatriot.com
ROBERT TUCKER/FOCALPOINT STUDIO PHOTO
SUPPORT SYSTEM - Fanny and Gardner Church, played by Kim
Crocker and Peter Hirst, lean on each other in Eventide Arts'
Painting Churches.
Painting Churches , at
Eventide Arts in Dennis,
is an endearing portrait of
a family. Sometimes funny,
often poignant,the play is a
revealing view of a mother,
father and daughter wading
through senility,unresolved
issues and unmet needs and
not always keeping a stiff
upper lip.
Kim Crocker and Peter
Hirst play Fanny and Gard-
ner Church, a pair of well-
heeled , educated Beacon
Hill academics who delight
over the daily cocktail hour.
They are packing their be-
longings for a move to their
cottage in Cotuit. Enter
Pratt art professor daughter
Margaret , who arrives to
help them with the move
but brings along her easel
and a plan to finally paint
her parent'sportrait , hence
Painting Churches.
Crocker is marvelous and
has a huge presence on-
stage, as always , as the
energetic, fiery matriarch.
Hirst plays Gardner Church
with a subtle,realistic qual-
ity. His transformation into
an older gentleman, begin-
ning the long journey into
dementia or Alzheimer 's
disease,istruly astounding.
If one didn't know he was a
younger, more robust man,
one would not hesitate to
accept him as the sweet,
scattered old man he plays.
He simply absorbs his role
and becomes it. The man-
nerisms he adopts, though
modest, are expertly crafted
and employed to make his
character natural. During a
scene in which his pitifully
disjointed "manuscript" is
shuffled by the
moving process , Hirst elec-
trifies the stage as he erupts
in confused anger.
Lauren Piselli is a funny,
unique Margaret. At times
she delivers lines that are
completely ignored by her
parents, asher mother dom-
inates every conversation.
However, she utters her
thoughts in a way that indi-
cates she has no intention of
being heard. The result is an
odd sense that she is acting
in a different play than the
two older characters , and
this may be intentional. She
pours her heart out in the
latter part of the hour-plus
first act,describing her pain
at being ejected from the
dinner table for an extended
period , and letting her aging
parents in on what she did
duringthese evenings alone
in her room. At times her
hostilitytowards her mother
is wearying and, in light of
the difficult circumstances
of the steamroller matri-
arch'sday-to-day fife , seems
selfish. However,the writing
allows us an honest look into
the private moments of a
family in transition and the
daughter 's feelings are un-
derstandable , her behavior
believable.
The play is a continuous
opening and unraveling
of barriers between the
daughter and her parents.
Where before someone was
not being heard , they now
have their chance at center
stage, to air the grievances
of the past or to expose the
difficult reality of the pres-
ent. Eventide Arts opens a
door to allow the audience
a front-row view of these
important moments as they
unfold.
Eventide Arts presents Paint-
ing Churches, by Tina Howe and
directed by Janet Leahy, Oct. 6-7.
12-15, and 19-22 with evening
performances at 7:30 and Sunday
matinees at 2:30 p.m. For tickets
($16), call 508-398-8588.
ARTS NOTEBOOK
STRONGER THAN A SPEEDING BULLET - Barnstable artist Edie Vonnegut's banner,
StoppingBullets, which she carried in the Million Moms March in Washington six years
ago,will be auctioned through Kobalt Gallery to benefit the Global Campaign for Education.
The banner, signed by luminaries such as Susan Sarandon. Bette Midler, Raffi . and
Courtney Love, will be on display Oct. 7 to 14 in the lobby of the Provincetown Theater,
238 Bradford St., during Women's Week.
Bands to battle
PIXY 103-FM and the RJL Memo-
rial Fund kick off their Battle of the
Bands fundraiser tomorrow at 7 p.m.
at Pufferbellies in Hyannis. The 10
bands include local lights Broke on
Friday from Cotuit and Hyannis's
own Sara Leketa. Tickets for this 18-
plus show are $10 at the door, and all
proceeds go to the Ryan J. Lariviere
Memorial Fund, created to honor the
late musician.
Join the authors for
breakfast
It's always fun to try to connect
the writers selected for a particu-
lar "Breakfast with the Authors "
event...so let's see.
Cape Cod Writers ' Center hosts a
"Breakfast with the Authors" Oct. 13
at Hyannis Golf Club on Route 132
from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m.
Marion Vuilleumier, well known as
a Cape writer, historian, and teacher,
will talk about her latest book, Sand-
wich.
Rose Connors writes the Marty
Nickerson mystery series, notable for
their Cape Cod locales. In preparing
follow-ups to her latest, False Testi-
mony, she might consult Vuilleumier's
book for new settings for mischief and
mayhem.
Sara Pennypacker writes children's
books, including Dumbstruck , Stew-
art 's Cap e, Stewart Goes to School ,
and Clementine. She could pick up
some child-raising tips from Connors '
Marty Nickerson,who'sraising asolid-
citizen son.
Martha Collins, whose poetry has
collected scads of important awards,
published a book-length poem, Blue
Frost , this year. As Pauline Delaney
Chair in Creative Writing at Oberlin
College, she'll offer insights the public
and her fellow authors will appreci-
ate.
Admission is$10, which includes cof-
fee,juice , and breakfast pastries. You
can pay at the door, but be sure to call
508-420-0200 to make a reservation.
Resolute author in town
tonight
Martin W. Sandler, author of RESO-
LUTE: The Epic Search for the North-
west Passage and John Franklin , and
the Discovery of the Queen 's Ghost
Ship, will discuss and sign his book
tonight from 7 to 9 p.m. at Barnes
& Noble at the Cape Cod Mall in
Hyannis.
Doroth y Leone tells
Albert Crosby's story
in new book
By Debi Boucher Stetson
arts@barnstablepatnot.com
Brewster resident Dorothy D. Leone
has written an ambitious novel, Where
the Herring Run , based on the life of
one of the town'smost prominent 19,h
century citizens, Albert Crosby.
The Crosby legacy lives on in the
Crosby Mansion , the grand home Al-
bert constructed around his modest
familyhome -legend has it that he used
to retreat to that older, cozier portion
of the house to sit in a rocking chair
while his much younger second wife,
Matilda, entertained in the ballroom of
the mansion that was his gift to her.
The talk of the town in its day, the
mansion became so again in recent
yearswith the valiant efforts of a volun-
teer group,launched by Brian Locke,to
save it. The mansion has come a long
way in the last decade, as evidenced
by regular open house events.
Crosby wasborn and raised in Brews-
ter, and Leone begins the book with his
childhood. Shefollows him to Chicago,
where he made his fortune , owned an
opera house and met Matilda follow-
ing his first wife's decision to return
lo Massachusetts.
While the book is fictional. Leone
did use what she was able to learn of
Crosby'slife, essentially veering off to
the land of fiction when it came to his
personal life and feelings.
Topping 450 pages, this is quite a
read, but Crosby aficionados will en-
joy delving into history in Where the
Herring Run.
Leone will be signing copies of her
book at the Brewster Bookstore on
Route 6A tomorrow from 10:30 a.m.
to?2:30 p.m. '
Cape writer reveals the maker of a mansion
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