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...dive with her into memories of family dinners, Didion simultaneously gives insight into her personal moments and provides situations to which the reader can relate. We may not have been there on her trip with Dunne to Hawaii, but everyone has memories of family vacations. Everyone has stories of childhood emergency room visits. Everyone has experienced a love and a loss; Didion articulates her own in a manner that is at once strange and familiar, beautiful, and devastating.—Staff Writer Marin J.D. Orlosky can be reached at orlosky@fas.harvard.edu...
...kiss you right now.” Something you’ve always wanted to tell someone: Not to anyone specific...“That’s a funny story involving alcohol. Do you have any stories that don’t involve alcohol?” Favorite childhood toy: N64. But “childhood” is misleading. I actually play more now. Fave part about Harvard: Being in the Din & Tonics. Describe yourself in three words: Keep it simple. In 15 minutes you are: Falling asleep over reading. In 15 years you are: Still...
...Carmen” follows the ill-fated attraction between its titular heroine, a tempestuous femme fatale, and Don José, the Spanish corporal who uproots his life in order to pursue her. Don José forsakes his post—as well his engagement to his childhood sweetheart Micaëla—in order to follow Carmen and her entourage of Gypsies from Seville into the mountains. Christina Baldwin’s dynamic portrayal of Carmen made it easy to see how one woman could drive a man to such impetuosity. Sensual and confident, Baldwin imbued Carmen with...
...year before his death, Wilson saw the debut of Radio Golf, the last of his 10-play cycle, one for each decade, on the black experience and African-Americans' struggles with the legacy of slavery in 20th century America. Most of his works were set in Pittsburgh, his childhood hometown. While some critics faulted his plays for what they saw as a crippling focus on race, most hailed Wilson's unerring ear for dialogue and emotion. The undercurrent of social protest that defined his works was also part of Wilson's offstage life?he argued for a separate black theater...
After 30 years as a stand-up comic, movie actor and eight-time Academy Awards host, Billy Crystal cracked Broadway last season, starring in 700 Sundays, a one-man show about his New York childhood and the death of his father. Now he has launched a five-city tour of the show, and a book version ("the director's cut") is due Oct. 31. He talked with TIME's Richard Zoglin...