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Show ValleyCenter Play Page 416 — THE DAILY HERALD, Provo, Utah, Thursday, May 38, 1996 Stephen King’s serial novel opens‘Fools Wear Pink’ isn’t living up to his reputation Fools Wear Pink this Friday, at the Valley Playhouse, 780 N. 200 East, Lindon. The story of the segieterNewspaper to Imagine this: You're in the pasSenger seat of a car. You're going fast — zooming down the straight- stops. CompletelyFor a month. Byits very nature, a serial nov- Clothes is brought im this fractured fairy tale Aa insecure Emperor and his court await the arrival of his aways, screeching around the curves, flooring it through yellow lights and barely stopping for reds. A trusted friend is at the wheel, and he's promising a thrilling journey leading to a fabulous destination, with scads of breathtaking seenery along the way. But as you drive, you notice that he seemsa little — well, lost But you don’t say anything, because you trust this driver, and because, amid all the trouble, he has shown you glimpses of things that were startling. Then he pulls up ta light and ror'’s rausical. cathe Emecleoat Gee aan” Ken Shelly as The Yolanda star in “Fools Wear Pink” Valley Center Pley- Nora,tries to expose the Emperor's incompetence before the Performances are Fridays, Satentire kingdom. She, aided by two thieves, disguised as trees, turns urdays and Mondays at 7:30 p.m. Jely 22. the court on its ear. The resulting merriment is filled with wit, humor and romance. Fools Wear Pink is a frolicking, tuneful, crowd pleaserfor the whole fami- and season tickets are available. ly. : ef can’t move smoothly. The stops and starts are built into the form; the end-of-each-»,gment _cliff- s PH 3ee CR hangers are also mandatory to keep the readers hagging on. The trouble with Stephen King’s “The Gree# Mile” (the second book, “The Mouse onthe Mile.” is in bookstores now, with segment 3, “Coffey’s Hands,” ext month), is that, sofar, ere’s only one characterthat you could plausibly build this kind of herky-jerky, stop-and-start story on — andthe author veers away from himand fromhis tale far too often Faithful readers will have learned by now that “The Green Mile™ consists of the memoirs of Paul Edgecombe, a seventysomething retired prison committing his memoitgto yellow legal pads as he whi Bolden years in a mw The story he has to King lets us know that Edgecombe “has” to tell this story more than he wants totell it — takesplacein the ffummerof 1932, when he was staiding guard over three conderfined killers: mild-mannered Delacroix, dangerous “Wild Bill” Wharton, and the enigmatic John Coffey, a giant black man who says little, cries more, and may not be responsible for the crime he has been convicted of. “John Coffey came to E Block and the Green Mile in October of that year, condemned for the murder of the 9-year-oid Detterick twins,” Edgecombe writes in the early pages of Book 2. “That's my major landmark, andifI keepit in View, | should do just fine.” : Unfortunately, Coffey falls Mostly out of view frthe entirety of “Mouse.” which focuses mostly on Delacroix, his pet mouse Mr. s. and the day-to-day workJ ings of life on Death Row It's intermittently interesting stuff. The chapter King devotes to a rehearsal for a killing. when a half-demented prison guard plays the condemned man, is arichly detailed read. An extraordinary mouse is so well-portrayed (developed, in fact, much more than some of the prisoners and most of the guards) that it will make youthink twice about thecritters. A dangerous dog was also so vividly portrayed thatit made me look at my own dog Wendell twice that night But the plot can’t seemto build any momentum. King doesn’t get back to John Coffey until Book 3, and eventhen wedon’; learn much more, we just keep getting tantalizing hints that Coffey’s story will ultimately make this ride worthhints, and then diver while sions, and more about the mouse, and about Wild Bill, who's about setaebienst Saea iui Mth WT 10 ae Enough with the mouse, and with Perey and Wild Bill. With three books to go, concentrate on Coffey, the “Green Mile’s” most intriguing resident, and get this show ontheroad. 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