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Perhaps the single strongest element of the show, however, lies in the third important group of characters. These are the "mechanicals," the clowns of A Midsummer Night's Dream. A band of lower-class artisans, their only goal is to rehearse the play they hope to stage before Duke Theseus in honor of his wedding. The play's most richly, broadly comic scenes fall to these characters, and the actors in this production pull off them off with sheer genius. As individual comic actors, the players are consistently hilarious; as a group, they forge a bond of buffoonery that transcends...
...clowns deliver remarkable performances: Adam Green '99 is especially delightful as Quince, the harassed "director" of his unruly band of actors. But the leader of the group, Becca Lowenhaupt '99, gives what may be the play's most brilliant performance in her side-splittingly funny portrayal of Bottom, the headstrong and histrionic weaver who accidentally becomes ensnared in the web of fairy magic permeating the forest and winds up with the infamous ass's head...
Hooker is fond of using collaborators to enliven his music--also, no doubt, to broaden his audience--and on his new album, Don't Look Back, he's chosen his partners deftly. The band Los Lobos backs Hooker on a virile version of Hooker's classic song Dimples, and Irish pop star Van Morrison contributes some cagey vocals on the aching ballad The Healing Game (Morrison also produced the album...
...reported last fall that Pynchon has been living quietly in Manhattan--an odd choice for a presumptive recluse--with his wife and young son for the past six or so years. In 1996 he attracted gossipy notice by writing the liner notes for an album by the alternative-rock band Lotion and appearing as an enthusiastic booster at some of the group's concerts. If this behavior suggests someone in no mood to act his age, then so does Pynchon's new novel, which shows that he is still the smartest and, occasionally, the most exasperating kid around...
...year-old president Marion Hammer and executive vice president, Wayne LaPierre. Knox and his followers blame Hammer and LaPierre for the lobby's huge drop in membership and a massive $56 million debt. If successful in his bid for control, Knox and his followers, labeled by LaPierre as "a band of militia gun devotees," could drastically change the face of the group by opposing such things as the prohibition on the manufacture of armor-piercing bullets and mandatory child-safety locks on handguns...