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...meatier roles in this film belong to the two actors playing Mike Myers, newcomer Daeg Faerch as 10-year-old Michael and pro wrestler Taylor Mane as the adult. Zombie, who also wrote the script, says he wants his Halloween to explore whether Myers was born evil or became evil. In one scene, the 6'10" Mane plays the role as a downcast, sweet, Frankensteiny kind of a villain, exploited by the medical professionals treating him. (Evidently the evil icon gets his murderous mojo back later in the film). This Myers is also shrouded in hair, another Zombie signature...
...quarter. Yet some of them are bound to resist any lures from either Sarko or Ségo. "Both of them talk about protecting us - the mother protector and the father protector," says Renaud Gaultier, an industrial designer in Paris. "I have a mother and father; I'm an adult, and I don't need this infantile discourse." Gaultier says he'll drop an unmarked ballot into the box on May 6, and he won't be the only Bayrou adherent to exercise that civic protest against what he sees as a choice between second-raters. Such tactics may assuage...
...Hairspray revolves around a zaftig high school dance whiz who fights for racial integration and fat-girl power in 1962 Baltimore. The Color Purple, the Oprah-produced musicalization of Alice Walker's novel, is the uplifting story of an African-American girl's journey from abused teen to empowered adult. The action hero of the new musical The Pirate Queen is a female fighter for Irish independence. Even in shows in which the gender balance is more equal, such as Spring Awakening and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, the emotional core seems to reside in the females...
Mitchell said a member of the group called in advance to inquire about the appropriateness of Mr. Daisey’s performance, and ART informed the caller of the “adult situations and language of the performance, and that another school from Andover would be in attendance.” Apparently satisfied, the caller ordered 87 tickets for the student group...
Perhaps this is because they are children, and their presentation was nothing more than a repetition of the story told repeatedly by their parents and other authority figures, including those who organize Picture Balata. This point is not meant to disparage the children themselves, but the adult manipulators who advise their speeches and inculcate them with mistruths. The exploitation of children for political means is an old propagandist tactic—clearly the children were chosen for their innocence and emotional appeal...