<cite>Looped</cite> turns on Valerie Harper's fine performance, by Elysa Gardner

Coming up in a less enlightened era, Bankhead was destined to be defined by her exploits as a free-thinking, fast-living woman. Better to be in on the joke than to invite scorn or, worse, pity. That's clearly the perspective of Matthew Lombardo, the author of <cite>Looped</cite>. The play, which opened Sunday at Broadway's Lyceum Theatre, is a passionate, if not entirely convincing, rebuttal to anyone who has tried t…

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