(Miriam Horn) 'TWELFTH NIGHT' Just because the Aquila Theater's broad, crowd-pleasing interpretation lacks subtlety doesn't mean that it's not effective, in its way.

(Miriam Horn) 'DESSA ROSE' It's easy to admire Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens ("Ragtime") for their belief in the humanist potential in musical theater.

(Miriam Horn) *'THOM PAIN (BASED ON NOTHING)' Is there such a thing as stand-up existentialism?

(Miriam Horn) Long-Running Shows 'AVENUE Q' R-rated puppets give lively life lessons (2:10).

"At the outset, I thought, Hey, 21, that's plenty old enough to consent," said Miriam Horn, 40, a writer in Manhattan who is working on a book on Mrs. Clinton's Wellesley College classmates.

(Miriam Horn) * 'HURLYBURLY' If you are going to inhabit a wasteland, you might as well be thoroughly wasted.

(Miriam Horn) 'IN THE AIR' Historical melodrama about the 1918 flu epidemic is like a soft-focus film on the Lifetime channel (2:15).

We in the audience know, of course, that Katherine's enemies will get their historical comeuppance: In "Rebels in White Gloves," Miriam Horn describes the class of 1969 - Hillary Rodham's class - as pivotal.

(Miriam Horn) Movies Ratings and running times are in parentheses; foreign films have English subtitles.

By Miriam Horn.