Byline: Jackie Demaline Executive entertainment editor
It must have something to do with taking yourself too seriously.
Capital Repertory Company's current outing, "Mrs. California," is like a lot of '80s comedies: The jokes come with a point of view.
The trouble starts when the laughs are brushed aside in order to make the points more pointed.
Playwright Doris Baizley's underlying theme is that maybe we've come full circle since the complacent '50s. The values of all us '60s rabble-rousers have gone to Macy's Cellar.
She makes her point by spoofing those times and our times with a "homemaking" (never call it "housekeeping") competition back in '55 - when people - female people - still ironed, cooked and sewed, before we let our fingers do the walking to the dry cleaner who picks up, the pizza that delivers and along the remote control for the …
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