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Forward thinking
An entirely subjective look at the week ahead
By COLETTE BANCROFT
Published February 28, 2005
EGOS DU JOUR
Martha Stewart is scheduled to leave those prison blues behind on Sunday. To ease her re-entry into society, she hired Pierre Schaedelin, former chef of the former Manhattan temple of cuisine Le Cirque, to cook for her during her six-month term of house arrest. Apparently Stewart will be too busy developing her new clothing and furniture lines and NBC television show, Martha Stewart's Apprentice, to scramble any pale-blue eggs herself.
BLUE TUESDAY
After 12 seasons, the final episode of NYPD Blue airs on ABC Tuesday night. We could argue about just when its glory days ended (for us, it hasn't been the same since Bobby Simone waved goodbye), but through it all Dennis Franz's Sipowicz stands as one of the great, complex, original characters in the history of television. And Franz has four Emmys to prove it. A retrospective airs at 9 p.m., the series finale at 10. Here's looking at you, Andy.
CARD SHARP
Odessa author and gambling expert James Swain has written a fifth novel in his series about casino consultant (and Palm Harbor resident) Tony Valentine. In Mr. Lucky, Tony pursues a guy who may be a grifter - or may just be having the luckiest streak in history. Swain will be signing the book at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday at Barnes & Noble, 11802 N Dale Mabry Highway in Tampa.
CATS LOOK AT A QUEEN
Tampa's Alley Cat Players theater company has moved into new digs at the Isaac Center, 610 E North St. in Seminole Heights. The company is settling in with a Reader's Theater series; The Player Queen will be presented at 8 p.m. Friday, Saturday and March 7. Alley Cat co-founder Jo Averill-Snell says the play by the great Irish poet W.B. Yeats is "about a queen who doesn't want to be a queen, about an actress looking for a great role, perhaps that of the queen." Tickets are $5 at the door; call (813) 231-8478 for information.
TURNING THE PAGE
Forward Thinking doesn't usually put much stock in astrology, but there seems to be some conjunction of the stars this week that produces major novelists. On Wednesday, master of tragicomedy John Irving (The Cider House Rules) turns 63, and the always radically chic Tom Wolfe (I Am Charlotte Simmons) is 74. On Sunday, the incomparable Gabriel Garcia Marquez (A Hundred Years of Solitude) will be 77.
Colette Bancroft can be reached at 727 893-8435 or bancroft@sptimes.com
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