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Among more conventional stagings of the Bard's work, the R.S.C. offers an electrifying Richard III with Anthony Sher hurtling around the stage as a disabled but untrammeled personification of evil and, at the company's other home in Stratford-Upon-Avon, a darkly funny As You Like It, again dazzlingly directed by Noble. His splendid, spare, Freudian production uses a flowing white sailcloth draped about the stage to represent a snowstorm, a dream-scape, a bower and a marriage tent...
...nicely gnarled ogre to play. Day-Lewis, who can make lunatic intensity seem a form of sainthood, finds in Jack a lion whose majesty is in the severe wounds he has inflicted and been afflicted by. The film is Jack's ballad, and Day-Lewis its roaring, charismatic bard. --By Richard Corliss
...comparison undeservedly puffs up DisneyWar and Eisner. A media leader squandering his company's worth, a tyrannical boss, a failure clinging to power--these are dog-bites-man stories that Stewart simply bundles up in a deliciously toxic, if underanalyzed, package. It's not a tragedy worthy of the Bard, but it is a lusty roll in greed and spite. In other words, a good old-fashioned Hollywood production...
...writing songs for his second album, stepped into the Mississippi and drowned. Now Buckley has two flourishing careers. His pretty face and early death have made him a cult hero, while his songs - or one of his songs - have turned him into TV's hottest sound-track artist, the bard of the Very Special Episode. The cult came first, and it feeds off more than one tragedy. Buckley's father, '70s folk singer Tim Buckley, abandoned his mother, pianist Mary Guibert, before Jeff was born, and father and son ended up meeting just once, in 1975, two months before...
...Buckley has two flourishing careers. His pretty face and early death have made him a cult hero, while his songs--or one of his songs--have turned him into TV's hottest sound-track artist, the bard of the Very Special Episode. The cult came first, and it feeds off more than one tragedy. Buckley's father, '70s folk singer Tim Buckley, abandoned his mother, pianist Mary Guibert, before Jeff was born, and father and son ended up meeting just once, in 1975, two months before the elder Buckley died of a heroin overdose at age 28. Jeff never spoke...