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...franchise just 11 years old, with a 72-year-old manager and a laughable attendance record--who survived. After eliminating the Giants and the Cubs, Florida fell behind two games to one against the Yanks, only to roar back with three straight wins, ending with 23-year-old Josh Beckett's 2-0 shutout. It was the Marlins' second World Series in their short life, enough to bring a Cubs fan to tears...
When he first turned up at acting school in Sydney, the teachers were determined not to like him. "They admitted it later, after they were my friends," he says with his ready chuckle. "I was very clean-cut, hammy and let's-put-on-a-show. They were very Beckett and Chekhov." But the qualities that made him repellent to the Method types later made him a natural for those extra-credit activities, like being a host on awards shows (he did the Tonys in June) and Saturday Night Live (in late 2001), that get a novitiate supernova noticed...
Most Memorable Moment: An experimental production of Beckett in Chicago’s Steppenwolf theater
Anton Chekhov seems to meet Samuel Beckett in Kama Ginkas’s new adaptation of Chekhov’s short story Lady with a Lapdog, currently running on the mainstage at the American Repertory Theatre (ART). The play, which Ginkas wrote, directed and produced, is an absurdist spectacle far removed from the emotional starkness and dry humor typical of Chekhovian productions. The powerful love story is narrated by characters who constantly pause mid-sentence, interrupted at arbitrary intervals by two clowns in blue and white striped stockings and punctuated by the ardent desire of the lovers to pour sand...
...wrote Samuel Beckett, whose plays and novels are no more depressing than your average country lament. John R. Cash (his first producer, Sun Records boss Sam Phillips, dubbed him Johnny) had every right to sing the country blues. Demons found him even when he wasn't looking for them. He dressed like a hip coroner and sang like a gunman turned Pentecostal preacher. His haunting songs perfectly matched his haunted voice. Rarely before Cash had a singer taken vocal pain--not the adolescent shriek of most rock singers but the abiding ache of a veteran victim--and made...