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The play has been transplanted from the teeming, multicultural world of 15th century Venice, Italy, to the teeming, multicultural world of 1994 Venice Beach, California, where Sellars lives when he isn't setting Don Giovanni in Spanish Harlem, putting King Lear in a Lincoln Continental or deconstructing other classic plays...
In one powerful scene in a Sicilian town square, she is surrounded by silent, leering men. The men are detestable in their predatory stances, but the viewer, taunted and manipulated by her beauty, seeks to understand her, to circle her and to communicate desire to her in much the same...
But despite the talk about statistical analysis and random populations, the book strays suspiciously from the standard scientific Protocol. Perhaps the cover, a lurid, close-up shot of a woman's navel surrounded by pink orchids, gives it away. Or the font used in the title lettering, highly reminiscent of...
What is the same in both Wenders films is the notion of angels as bestowers of grace on a secular landscape. Wenders' view is traditional and strangely powerful. He sees angels as invisible consolers, gentle kibitzers in the monologues that run endlessly through our mind. They are the eternal observers...
According to December's Magic magazine, there are nine major shows in Vegas that are either full-tilt magic acts or feature magicians big. But that's an underestimate, because it doesn't count Vegas regulars like the Pendragons (husband and wife magicians and body builders -- it had to happen...