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...Clinton bashers, there's Rush Limbaugh. For teens fixated on Beavis and Butt-head, there's MTV's Week in Rock. The Internet has become the ultimate narrowcasting vehicle: everyone from UFO buffs to New York Yankee fans has a Website (or dozen) to call his own--a dot-com in every...
...television must have caused for Americans back in their day. The Internet has become all inclusive: anyone having anything to say, any company wishing to advertise are all a part of it. Industries and individuals alike have developed themselves through this tool. And anybody who is anybody has a .com or .aol after their name. It is the new tradition...
...they kill their creations. Taking a literal spin on the idea of an "inner child," the Unseen Theatre production of "And Baby Makes Seven" offered a solid, but unremarkable, portrayal of colliding fantasies and realities. Unfortunately, because of a tendency toward pat set-ups reminiscent of an odd sit-com pilot and a vague sense of lagging toward the end, the audience was left thinking about the mental exercise of story-telling rather than caring about the actors' evocation of the topic...
...through now and again--a kitten in a drug den, even Renton's own face alone--only to be quickly undermined. There's nothing wrong with mixing scatological or whoops-I've-slept-with-a-transvestite humor with addiction drama, but "Trainspotting" somehow manages to fall into the sit-com, serious moment dead zone: "Goddamn it say something, Renton! Somebody say something...
Michael Stuhlbarg, as Edmund, gives the most unsteady performance of the protagonists, at some moments scintillating, at others invoking a sit-com like shrillness as Edmund screams at all the other characters to shut up. Again, the problem is partially with the role-- the Edmund character, a stand in for the playwright himself, must serve as straight man to the other characters' various emotional defenses and attacks, a non-character for them to play against...