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...show-business class. While the British still seem to require that their actors study Marlowe at Cambridge and enunciate their words in the manner of those listed in Burke's Peerage, we live in a country where Tony Danza might--and does--turn up in The Iceman Cometh. By the restrictive standards of her homeland, then, British actress Anna Friel, 22, currently making her theatrical debut in the hit Broadway play Closer, has experienced a mesmerizing turn of fortune. In just three years, with no classical training behind her, Friel, the daughter of middle-class parents, has gone from starring...
Great plays are not always easy to sit through. Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh runs nearly 4 1/2 hours, has a garrulous first act that could try the patience of saints, and hammers home its point about "pipe dreams"--the illusions that prevent people from facing the bleak realities of their lives--so many times that you might want to take a lead pipe to the author. Yet at least once a generation, theatergoers deserve a chance to immerse themselves in this oceanic masterpiece. This time it's an inspired...
...bust our cubes for you!" (What more could a customer ask for?) "The Ice Man cometh seven days a week." (Does he?) "Is one really enough?" (One bag? Probably not!) These are just a few of the slogans that pepper the outer walls of Boston's largest self-serve ice receptacle which occupies a small lot on the border of the Cambridge and Somerville, 100 Kirkland St. According to local legend, a little man named George lives inside the landmark. It is he who 24/7 offers the five-pound bags of cubed ice for $1 and $2 blocks...
...Whence cometh BECK? An interesting insight to the singer's idiosyncrasies--the inadvisable suits, the inexplicable videos, the impenetrable lyrics--is hanging on the walls of New York City's Thread Waxing Space gallery in an exhibition called "Playing with Matches." Beck's grandfather Al Hansen was a member of Fluxus, a loosely knit group of conceptual artists who engaged in happenings, mostly in the '60s, but who still work today. At the launch of the exhibition in Santa Monica, Calif., in May and in New York City last week, Beck's brother Channing Hansen performed Elegy for the Fluxus...
Yesterday's future passeth away; a brand-new future cometh. It was as if the future had performed a changing of the guard...