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...disappointingly mediocre follow-up by the makers of last year's brilliant Trainspotting. The ill-paced narrative tells the story of Robert (Ewan McGregor), a recently fired janitor who unwittingly kidnaps the beautiful daughter (Cameron Diaz) of his rich ex-boss. Screenwriter John Hodge attempts to freshen things up by tossing in gun-toting angels, a psychotic dentist, and some forced romantic comedy, but only manages the further muddle the plot...
...what in the world is all the hub-bub about? Well, Stomp has a double-edged appeal: The exuberance and power of its on-stage performance lends it the appeal of a particularly brilliant rock concert, while its genuinely creative philosophy makes it unique among the "performance art" offerings of the stage...
...itself--a grungy, industrial conglomeration of trash bins, street signs, scaffolding and stoplights--itself becomes a part of the show. At the halfway point, the cast drums a loud, brilliant, exuberant number against these street artifacts while literally suspended from the scaffolding. And in the show's final, climactic piece, everything from the man-size plastic dustbins on the ground level to the tin trash cans suspended overhead becomes a part of the show, as trash-can lids, hubcaps and more exotic instruments are marched in from offstage...
...crisp September evening two years ago, I saw Perry emote those same lasers while steering our high school, Malden Catholic (M.C.), to a win over Boston College High. That game heralded a season more brilliant than the red and yellow hues that splash the autumn landscape...
Jamaica Kincaid is a writer of stinging force, rare intelligence and, alas, a single, anguished theme: her bitter resentment of her mother--who, as the author herself seems to realize, was merely a limited, self-absorbed woman. But in book after book (notably a brilliant, tormented novel, The Autobiography of My Mother), Kincaid displays the wounds of her unhappy childhood as a poor, bookish black girl in Antigua. Her new volume, an irritating navel contemplation titled My Brother (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 198 pages; $19), repeats the pattern of familiar, well-written complaint. (Opinions differ; in what appears...