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Almost from the moment that DeLay first came up with the idea of subpoenaing Schiavo as a way to prevent the removal of her feeding tube, the saga has had elements of a political circus. There was Congress, convening a special session during the Easter recess to pass a bill crafted just for one family, giving Schiavo's parents a final avenue of appeal. There was President Bush, for the first time cutting short a rest at his ranch to sign a bill. Top Republican staffers on Capitol Hill told TIME that it took some lobbying by congressional Republican leaders...
With witty, lightweight songs by William Finn (March of the Falsettos), the show is, first of all, a funny spoof of the rituals of these contests--from the up-close-and-personal commentary, delivered in earnest half-whisper by the moderator ("Mr. Barfee has a sea anemone circus in his basement"), to the ridiculously unhelpful sentences meant to put the words in context ("Sally's mother told her it was her cystitis that made her special"). The show also, more distractingly, partakes in the current Broadway fad of audience participation: four civilians each night are selected to go onstage...
...bass and to start writing music. The first time I remember being excited about music was in middle school. I went to a Beck concert in sixth grade. Odelay had just come out, and I really couldn’t believe what was going on: it was just a circus with DJs and disco balls, guys in capes, even the Cardigans were there, and Beck just shrugging it all off. I just thought: this is so cool. That was my first encounter with what a live performance could be and I’m a strong believer now that when...
Friday, March 4. Cinema Circus: A Family Film Event. 10 a.m. Brattle Theater. $9. Tickets available at theater or www.brattlefilm.org...
...raised in a brothel, which was run by Rips' great-grandparents. He revisited some vivid memories of his own childhood: a local handyman who always walked down stairs backward, a tornado that sucked his grandmother up through a garbage chute. When he was 9 years old, Rips watched a circus acrobat plunge to her death from a 50-ft. pole. (Naked Lady shares a kind of adolescent gothic vibe with Frank Conroy's excellent Stop-Time...