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Korder, one of the most promising American playwrights, reaches back in style more than a half-century to the era before the dominance of kitchen-sink realism, when the American theater was expressionistic and experimental, poetically and politically inflamed. Despite a few sentimental false notes, he is painfully apt about life in the U.S. today. But his play is set timelessly in "the modern era." Marina Draghici's set reinforces this reach for the enduring: its Art Deco windows and wire fences, beer gardens and alleys evoke the urban sense of living with the decaying legacy of the past...
...every now and then, die more beautifully. This holiday season, mortality is much on the minds of ambitious filmmakers. Grim Death will be gargling in dramas about AIDS (Philadelphia), the Nazi Holocaust (Schindler's List), Vietnam (Heaven and Earth) and plain old age (Wrestling Ernest Hemingway). It's apt that the Cardiac Pack is led by My Life, for its writer-director is Bruce Joel Rubin, screenwriter for the postmortem love story Ghost and the death-throe fantasy Jacob's Ladder -- the Jack Kevorkian of '90s Hollywood...
Korder, one of the most promising American playwrights, reaches back in style more than half a century to the era before the dominance of kitchen-sink realism, when the American theater was expressionistic and experimental, poetically and politically inflamed. Despite a few sentimental false notes, he is painfully apt about the way we live now. But his play is set timelessly in "the modern era." Marina Draghici's set reinforces this reach for the enduring: its Art Deco windows and wire fences, beer gardens and back alleys evoke the urban sense of living with the decaying legacy of the past...
That's right. The fat lady's sung on this one. It's over. The lights are out. "The refrigerator door," as old-time Lakers announcer Chick Hearn was apt to say, "is shut...
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