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Despite this slightly sappy plotline, Glenn Kessler is convincing as Sidney, the clownish con-man who is "tired of making other people happy." His delivery is energetic and humorous, and his joking, "aim to please Sid Freeze" mode is wonderfully shallow. While Todd Kessler trods some familiar ground in his choice of characters--he mocks yuppie stereotypes throughout the play--he provides some imaginative, funny material nonetheless. Sidney subscribes to his therapist's theory of "Rosenblatt reality" in which thinking oneself at a place is equated to being there, and Rose's first reaction to Sidney's proclamation that...
That storyteller must also have understood that even though Schindler, a hypnotically ambiguous character -- he was a drinker, womanizer, black marketeer and con artist -- was operating in a charnel house, he was finally that classically empathetic, inspirational figure, the lone individual doing good in a desperately dangerous context. If you could get an audience to accept that context, you could involve them with a man who, though antiheroic in some of his behavior, was in his essence a movie hero of quite a familiar, beloved kind...
...politicos in New Jersey are suggesting an explanation for why no one has found evidence that Edward Rollins attempted to suppress the black vote in the state's gubernatorial election. They say that Rollins probably did try to do what he originally boasted of, but got flimflammed by black con men who promised to help hold down the black vote, walked out with his cash and vanished...
Harvard Film Archive. Carpenter Center $5 for students. "Manufacturing Con- sent" at 2 and 7 p.m. See Thursday's listingfor more information...
...think the NAFTA debate is quite arcane," said Chand, who has lived in Mexico for more than four years and currently serves as the principal con- sultant for the Carter Center's study onMexican elections...