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...chorus consisted of five women dressed in black mourning robes suggestive of nuns’ habits or burkas. The women bewailed their fates and unobtrusively mimed actions suggested by the dialogue. This employment was fairly successful, although occasionally the wailing drowned out parts of the dialogue. The inaudibility of certain lines, however, was remarkably irrelevant to the effect of the production; the mournful gesturing, particularly on the part of Hecuba, the Queen of Troy (Harvard employee Isabel del Carmen Quintana), expressed at least as much as the somewhat repetitive speeches...
...spare a kind thought for Johnny Depp's agent, Tracy Jacobs. For more than a decade, her client--one of the world's best actors and best-looking human beings--has consistently turned down glamorous leading-man roles in large, profitable movies so that he could play a chorus of memorable (to those who saw them) character parts, like Cesar, the Gypsy horseman in The Man Who Cried, or Bon Bon, the Cuban transvestite prostitute who smuggles prison contraband in his rectum in Before Night Falls. Only Crispin Glover's representatives have suffered more for their percentage...
...great animals then wheeled about and gave chase in a surprising burst of speed. The bigger of the two got within trunk-swiping distance of our jeep as we cowered and shouted. Fortunately, the track flattened out and we were able to floor it, to a chorus of furious trumpeting. Later I asked Premaratna if we had been in any real danger. "I know of men who have been closer to an angry wild elephant. But none of them are alive," he said, quite deadpan...
Former Enron CEO Jeff Skilling was accused of insider trading that helped net him $89 million in profits. Yet there is no chorus of voices charging him for talking down to people...
Former Enron CEO Jeff Skilling was accused of insider trading that helped net him $89 million in profits. Yet there is no chorus of voices charging him for talking down to people...