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...playing A Suffering Man. I would love to see Depp win the Oscar—he’s one of those rare actors incapable of giving a bad performance—but my money’s still on Sean and his loyal following. Bill Murray is a comic genius, and he should’ve won ten years ago for Groundhog Day, or 21 years ago for Tootsie, but the fact that he couldn’t even get nominated until now is due to his notoriously bad reputation in awards circles; the pundits all talked about this...
...Dunster House Opera Society presents their last two performances of Cosi Fan Tutte, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s final comic opera. The story follows the travails of Ferrando and Guglielmo, two arrogant young officers who decide to test the loyalty of their beautiful fiancées after the sceptical Don Alfonso questions their sweethearts’ devotion. Hilarity ensues as the opera unravels to expose the deceitful nature of love. Tickets $9 regular, $10 at door, $7 students, $6 Dunster residents. Friday, Feb. 27 at 8:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 28 at 8:30 p.m. Dunster House Dining Hall...
...Unfortunately, "Tuesday" will be hard to find except at exceptional comic books stores...
...industry doesn't give the public enough credit for getting things, and so they keep lowering the bar instead of raising it. There seem to be a lot of jokes at people's expense, whether it's a magazine making fun of someone's clothes or a stand-up comic pointing out something a person did wrong. We don't even notice it anymore. It's become common to tear somebody down. I don't find it funny...
DIED. JULIUS SCHWARTZ, 88, an early promoter of the science-fiction genre, who went on to revive the American comic-book industry after World War II; in Mineola, N.Y. As a science-fiction literary agent in the 1940s, he sold an unknown Ray Bradbury's first stories. Later, as an editor at DC Comics, he revived such superheroes as the Flash and Green Lantern, and in the 1970s updated Superman, giving his alter ego, Clark Kent, a new job--as a TV reporter...