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ALONE IN PARADISE I sprawled on a beach chair, stared out over blue waters that seemed to never end, and silently thanked the rest of humankind for being somewhere else...
...This poor man's Thailand boasts four dazzling but desolate white-sand beaches, each sparsely dotted with shanties where locals sell water, fruit and French fries. Victory Beach is a two-minute walk from a backpacker-hotel cluster known as Weather Station Hill, where $2 rooms abound. The adventurous can hike 3 km south to Independence Beach. Sokha and Ochheuteal beaches on the south shore offer bungalows for rent and are somewhat more commercial, but not by much...
...LONG BEACH...
...Bestselling author James Patterson, with co-writer Peter de Jonge, turns out yet another hefty novel, "The Beach House" (Little, Brown; June 10). PW calls it, "a slick, vastly enjoyable yet far-fetched thriller - i.e. typical Patterson. Its hero is a Columbia University law student, Jack Mullen, who's out to avenge the death of his younger brother, Peter, found dead on the Amagansett, L.I., property of the immensely wealthy Neubauer family, a few miles from Jack and Peter's Montauk home. The cops say Peter drowned; a glance at the corpse tells Jack that his brother was beaten...
...first involves staging the production in a novel space, giving way to an As You Like It on the beach or Hamlet in the actual ruins of Elsinore. The second, or conceptual tack, applies an external theme to the play’s framework, leading to Richard III in fascist Italy or Romeo and Juliet at a post-apocalyptic rave. The third posits some new interpretation of a character that flows against the traditional grain, allowing a lovable, misunderstood Iago or a courageous, bloodthirsty Hamlet. Hyperion’s current version of Macbeth takes both the first and third avenues...