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...timer, the ceo of evil?and he's "worn out," ready to retire. A yakuza gathering is like afternoon at a retirement club, each man alone in regret and anxiety. Sonatine, which secured Kitano's reputation in the West, plays like a gangster King Lear as rewritten by Samuel Beckett. The soliloquies are bloody battles, illuminated by the sheet-lightning pyrotechnics of automatic gunfire; but the rest is Kitano walking, sitting, staring. Till he blows his brains...
...BECKETT WOULD LOVE...
...Anne G. Beckett '04 says she was one of the wary ones at first--she wasn't sure she wanted the boys invading her room...
Governments, too, felt the pain. In London, Parliament shut down its servers before the Love Bug's assault. "This affectionate greeting," intoned Commons leader Margaret Beckett, "contains a virus which has immobilized the House's internal communication system...
Anyone who's tried to get the rights to a play by Samuel Beckett has undoubtedly run into one of the most fundamental power struggles in the theatrical world since the development of the modern director. Beckett's works are famous for their exacting stage directions, and since his death his estate has become famous for demanding that all productions follow these directions to the letter. The demands of Beckett's estate are an extreme example of a call for authorial authority but not an abnormal one. The Dramatists Guild, the only national union of dramatic writers, encourages its members...