Word: acte
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...thought it would be better if the vicepresident wasn't just a rubber stamp to thepresident...the VP should act as a check," hesays...
...throngs of young people. Often they do it by breaking genre boundaries, mixing in elements of rock concerts or performance art. Hedwig and the Angry Inch, a hot ticket for months, is the life story of a transsexual rock star, told in the form of an autobiographical nightclub act. De La Guarda's circus-like theater piece, Villa Villa, features performers who swoop and soar on cables above the audience (which stands during the entire 60-min. spectacle). "These shows are reinventing theatrical language," says David Binder, a De La Guarda co-producer, "for an audience that thought the theater...
...Jack Kevorkian's televised killing of Thomas Youk, 52, on 60 Minutes last week had the familiar dramatic arc of an infomercial. Act I presents the vexing problem--baldness, cellulite or, in this case, Youk's advanced-stage Lou Gehrig's disease. In Act II the host touts a miracle solution--hair transplants, Taekwondo or a shot of heart-stopping potassium chloride. In the final act come the gushing testimonials. Youk couldn't play the role of satisfied customer himself--by Act III he was dead--but his wife Melody stepped in. "I don't consider it murder," she told...
Polls suggest that up to 75% of Americans back mercy killing, though most state efforts to make it legal have not succeeded. Voters in Oregon passed a Death with Dignity Act by a 60% majority last year, making it the only state to legalize assisted suicide. California and Washington defeated "aid in dying" referendums in the early 1990s. And Michigan rejected an assisted-suicide initiative this year by a landslide of 71% to 29%. (No state allows the sort of mercy killing that Kevorkian aired last week.) Courts have largely bowed out of the issue. In 1990 the Supreme Court...
Poor MARILYN MANSON. With each well-documented transgression, the singer proves how derivative his act really is. After he and his entourage reportedly trashed their rooms last week at the Sheraton in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., one of the hotel manager's chief gripes was that Manson had stained the bathroom sinks with hair dye. That's the sort of complaint that would embarrass New Kids on the Block, let alone a rocker like Marilyn. And what of a claim a few days later that Manson ordered his bodyguards to beat up Spin magazine editor Craig Marks? Seems the same move...