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...what makes this production of Sweeney Todd such a joy to watch is that everyone in the cast can not only act but they can actually sing Sondheim's tortuous lyrics. Particularly notable are Joel Derfner as Tobias, Carolyn Rendell as the Beggar Woman and Adam Feldman as Beadle Bamford. Derfner is almost a little too campy and needed to project more but his wide blue eyes and clear tenor are perfect for the waif befriended by Mrs. Lovett. Rendell, a Crimson contributing reporter, is a terrific actor and the complexity of her music allows you to forgive the occasional...
...muscular and, when old, stringy. One is left in no doubt that Ribera found them on the street, in their patched, tatterdemalion clothes, and got them into the studio for a few coppers. In his early Roman allegories of the five senses, The Sense of Smell is a beggar holding up not the flower that was usual in versions of this common subject, but a cut onion, so that tears trickle from his eyes. Touch, very movingly, is a blind man feeling out the broken nose of a classical marble head, which he can just apprehend by touch, while...
...with many another Huston project, the minor characters soon become more diverting than the principals. An eloquent beggar child turns out to be a 40- year-old dwarf, his growth stunted "with stories, with truth, with warnings and predictions." Everyone else in Green Shadows has a similar penchant for the exaggerated anecdote ("Getting to the point," observes one, "could spoil the drink and ruin the day"). Bradbury has a musician's ear, and he makes their boozy exchanges as bright and merry as coins clinking on the bar of a pub. Even the teetotaling George Bernard Shaw has a memorable...
...solve the problem. Many people who don't give a quarter to a homeless person because it seems futile would happily give a lot more than that to live again (as we did barely a decade ago) in a society where the sight of a blanket-wrapped beggar is shocking. In a democracy, "government coercion" is a crude misrepresentation of the process by which citizens make a collective decision to achieve together what they cannot achieve individually...
Jeffrey Dahmer's deeds beggar the imagination. The 31-year-old former chocolate-factory worker, who is charged with the murder of 15 young men, reportedly drugged some victims and performed crude lobotomies on them in an attempt to create zombie-like companions. He had sex with some corpses and dismembered bodies, tossing hands in a kettle and storing a severed head in the refrigerator as well as a heart to be eaten later. Who doubts that Dahmer's behavior is mad? But is he insane...