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Despite his odd off-screen romance with starlet Katie Holmes, it’s impossible to dislike Cruise, and his character??s shortcomings as a parent are quickly forgiven once people start dying. His children continue to oppose him in the movie, though, and you frequently wish that he’d just ditch them, or at least put a muzzle on Fanning to stop the shrieking...
...October 2004 Faculty meeting, Summers described the “sinusoidal character?? of University efforts to hire and tenure women as responsible for the fluctuation in percentages of female tenure—when attention paid to the recruitment of women rises and falls, the number of women tenures rises and falls respectively...
...Sarah E. Stein ’08 plays Domina, Hero’s overbearing mother, with appropriately overblown hauteur. The sleazy profligacy of Lycus, the slave-owner (embodied by Justin V. Rodriguez ’07) contrasts well with the wistfully innocent Hero and the glib Pseudolus. Each individual character??s excesses are played to the fullest in their songs. Here, Sondheim’s score is as snappy and melodic as ever...
...cast impressively succeeds in dealing with the extreme emotional and tonal shifts of the play. Every character is believable in any given scene, whether the character??s arc is logical or not. Faatin Chaudhury, as Sahar’s mother, especially hits the right mixture of wisdom and stubbornness, allowing her to be the play’s stable center, even though most of her appearances are on a landing to one side of the stage...
...jealousy built up over the years of close companionship—while the omnipresent threat of imminent death stands over them. Cassavetes’ frighteningly desperate performance shows him going through the stages of grief for his own life. It is saved from saccharine self-pity by his character??s tragically flawed nature and eyebrows that twitch like those of Jack Nicholson’s Joker in “Batman...