Word: caste
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Reeves cast the tie-breaking vote to defeat the proposal...
...populated by journeymen TV actors who redefine that overused term, "ensemble cast." Anthony Edwards (who had a recurring role in Northern Exposure and supporting roles in such films as Top Gun) is probably first among equals, but with his thinning hair, glasses and unassuming manner, he never steals a scene. George Clooney, as playboy pediatrician Dr. Doug Ross, is the most traditional hunk of the bunch, but the actor is self-effacing to a fault. "The writers are so good that even I can't screw up," he says. "For an old TV actor, it's great to have Steven...
...Strangelove" is incontestably the best feel-good nuclear apocalypse comedy ever made. Director Stanley Kubrick's dark comedic touch and the superb cast have made this a beloved cult film. This week "Dr. Strangelove" returns, quirks and Commies intact, for a 30th anniversary run at the Brattle, on a screen almost as wide as the "Big Board" itself...
...certainly your patriotic duty to revel in Kubrick's extraordinary film. Don't be surprised if you come out of the Brattle more thoughtful about the nuclear arms race. But you won't by thinking about such trivialities in the theater. Kubrick and his cast will fix Dr. Strangelove's own death grip on you--uncontrollable laughter...
This intellectual analysis is the goal of Brachtian theatre; for attaining that goal the talented cast and crew of Man is Man deserve congratulation. Special praise, however, should go to Levine himself, with has managed to synthesize elements of wound, speech, and spectacle into an avant garde dream world which does not sacrifice coherence or resort to the arbitrary. Under Levine's direction, Brecht's Man is Man is a stimulating, intellectually exhilarating experience...