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...cast simply never appeared to be in sync with the choreography and each other. Hervé Courtain, as Puck, did an admirable job of portraying the whimsical role, which requires heavy amounts of acting and comic timing for a dancer. His rather feminine body (very apparent in the lack of a costume that Puck is required to wear) did not quite fit, however, with the particularly athletic style of Puck’s choreography. Courtain did pull off some amusing facial expressions and pantomime that attempted to fill in for Shakespeare’s words, but he always seemed about...

Author: By Erin K. Kelly, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Miscast ‘Midsummer’ Far from a Dreamy Night | 9/28/2001 | See Source »

...this is fine, since none of Willis’s fans pretend to enjoy his act on a musical level. Rather, they enjoy the comic relief involved in the almost vaudevillian (and certainly pathetic) spectacle of Willis’ psychopathology. They come to laugh at the leper’s festering lesions in a shameless display of Schadenfreude. This in itself is a disease inherent in American culture: We enjoy seeing others flounder and make fools of themselves...

Author: By D. ROBERT Okada and Z. SAMUEL Podolsky, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: The Wesley Willis Question | 9/28/2001 | See Source »

...come home to Medellin "to die." This does not stop him from taking up with an angel-faced teenage killer named Alexis (Anderson Ballesteros). The kid was trained by the drug cartel but will off anyone who offends him or his lover. As deaths pile up, they have a comic effect; love apparently means never leaving the safety on. Full of sacrilegious rant, absurdist affectlessness and pop social criticism, this film plays like an old B movie: narratively improvisational, delusionally pretentious, weirdly watchable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Our Lady Of The Assassins | 9/17/2001 | See Source »

...that arrange our desktops. Ella, who has a thing for cows, has a bovine motif, for instance; Zoe prefers a King Tut theme. When I'm allowed on the machine, I hit Windows-L and instantly hot-key into my own account (a desktop built on a Daniel Clowes comic). Whatever programs my daughters are running continue to run, invisible to me but waiting for their return. This is hugely useful and a big hit. But coupled with Microsoft's push into your private life--you also have to register online or by phone to activate XP, and messages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: XP's Road To Simplicity | 9/17/2001 | See Source »

...Winners ELLEN DEGENERES Ex-lover Anne Heche says comic was the best lover she ever had. But then she also claimed to have spoken with God in a secret language GEORGE SPEIGHT Fijian coup-maker campaigns from his prison cell and wins a seat in Parliament. Hey, that makes him kind of like Mandela and Havel! THE CONCORDE Supersonic planes get O.K. for return to service. Never mind what the global economic meltdown has done to CEOs' travel budgets Losers BRITNEY SPEARS Slammed by animal-rights activists for plans to bring cheetahs onstage, she totes a snake instead. Like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starting Time | 9/17/2001 | See Source »

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