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...Noise is less than two hours long, including the intermission, and that is just as well. Producer-creator- director George C. Wolfe, who directed Angels in America and runs the New York Shakespeare Festival, is content here with a series of impressions, and the book is weak. In this revue, the feet have...
Journalism loves an easy irony--and no irony is sweeter than the idea that some creator of a cherished work should have proved less lovable than his or her creations. What most adult lovers of the Winnie-the-Pooh books seem to know about author A.A. Milne is that through a combination of obliviousness and neglect, he saddled his only son Christopher with a perfectly awful childhood--a fact that rocked the world in 1974 when Christopher Milne's memoir The Enchanted Places first appeared. In it, the "real" Christopher Robin painted the portrait of a father who was cold...
...neglectful father of Christopher Robin. Days later, with the passing of another of English-speaking childhood's most beloved figures--Pamela Lyndon Travers (known to her fans as "P.L.")--the papers seemed to reflect another kind of disillusion. This time, it was a thinly veiled disappointment that the creator of Mary Poppins should have proved less saccharine than the character portrayed by Julie Andrews in the Walt Disney movie...
...contribution to the struggling Christian community in Rome and then proceeded to enunciate his vision of Christ. The kind and good Jesus, he declared, could not possibly be the Son of the implacably just, harshly rational God of the Jewish Prophets. No, that was the wrong God, merely the creator of this world. Jesus was the Son of an unknown and greater God, who out of completely unreasonable kindness and love sent his Son to deliver humankind from the legalistic master of creation. To buttress his beliefs, Marcion purged the miasma of texts Christians used as Scripture to form...
...Satan could tempt Jesus with earthly power and riches, did that not mean that the world was Satan's to give? In time, Jesus would be the spirit of the serpent in the Garden of Eden, giving Adam and Eve a chance to escape from their dastardly creator with a taste of the fruit of the tree of knowledge...