Word: brilliante
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...voltage actress looking to make her mark, a kind of career-defining harpy Hamlet. Just ask Judy Davis, who's now appearing on the Sydney stage for the first time since firing Hedda's pistol in 1986. The ricochet from that legendary performance can still be felt with this brilliant, if unconventional, actress. Dodging the usual star trajectory, Davis has played neurosis for Woody Allen and, most recently, Nancy Reagan for American TV. So how to follow up Hedda nearly two decades on? For the STC, Davis could have named her role. Medea, perhaps, or Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar...
...mirrors to contemporary society. And one senses that much of his ire was reserved for Margaret Thatcher, whose reforms were transforming Britain at the time this play was written. "I hate you," Devonshire tells the King, who replies that hatred is "only passion back to front." Victory is a brilliant backhander of a play, with Davis providing the passion...
Then, just before intermission, a catalytic gale blows in a tousled malcontent called Lovborg (John C. Dewis). He’s brilliant, he’s wry and he’s long been nursing a passion for Hedda. And when he and Hedda butt heads, they touch off a string of events with uniformly tragic consequences...
...Afghan campaign was one of the most brilliant and economical in military history. Nonetheless, one battle, Tora Bora, was a failure, probably allowing Osama bin Laden to slip away. Is this the stuff of apologies? Did Lincoln apologize for his army's letting Lee get away at Antietam...
...would sell 100 million songs within a year. As of last month, a little more than 50 million 99¢ songs had been downloaded. Sometimes wrong is right enough, though. "I'm thrilled," he says. "It's been a great year." For a man whose marketing prowess is almost as brilliant as his imprint on the computer age, "great" is an understatement. His iTunes-to-iPod music strategy suggests a way to save the free-falling, Napster-knackered music industry. Pixar, his computer-animation studio, won another Academy Award this year, for Finding Nemo. But Jobs' major coup has been...