Word: adamant
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...With reporting by Bernard Baumohl/New York, Tim Larimer/Tokyo and Adam Zagorin/Washington
Speed is the principle pleasure of The Compleat Works of Wllm. Shkspre. (Abridged), showing through August 8 at the Hasty Pudding Theatre. From the beginning, the play's trio of actors (Erik Amblad, Will Burke and Adam "Waka" Green) plainly state their mission--to present all of Shakespeare's plays--and take off like horses from a starting gate. They begin with a comparably lengthy rendition of Romeo and Juliet, continue with truncated versions of the Tragedies, and, with time running short, condense the Comedies into a skit in double time, and further distill the Histories into a few symbolic...
...BRIDGET FONDA at least looked well groomed. At the premiere of Eyes Wide Shut, NICOLE KIDMAN turned up the glamour (adorning her arm with what looked like a painful piece of jewelry), while husband and co-star TOM CRUISE dispatched with elegance in favor of studied nonformality. And surely ADAM SANDLER (seen here with co-star ROB SCHNEIDER) could have found a fresh T shirt for the premiere of his film Big Daddy. Are we really asking so much...
...awry. Kubrick rivaled Freud in his ability to probe our collective unconscious. His final masterpiece, Eyes Wide Shut, is a testament to his creative genius. It is a shame that our culture has become desensitized to violence, while human sexuality is still as taboo as in the days of Adam and Eve. COLIN MCDONALD Waterbury, Conn...
Pictured at right, pirate-garbed Will Burke '99 plays Hamlet; a quintessentially demure Adam "Waka" Green easily slips into the role of Juliet; and Erik Amblad '98-'99 (bowled over by the force of so many numeral hanging from the back of his name, no doubt) wears a tidy red cape...