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...acres of it. He has long, sandy hair and a kind, weathered face. "We're not going to take part today, but we'll watch from up there." Thor points to a spot farther up the hill by two tall ponderosa pines. Behind these hills are the Sangre de Cristo mountains...
...dusty frontier town of Narok, then follows a rutted washboard road across an empty and chokingly dusty plain until it shifts into four-wheel drive and begins the slow climb up into the hills. It is lovely in the hills. They look somewhat like the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of New Mexico. Part of their beauty is their pristine remoteness. One rarely encounters a white man there...
...even wunderkinder can make false starts. For his second effort at Kennedy Center -- and his first as director -- Sellars has fashioned a dazzlingly original production of The Count of Monte Cristo. Exhuming this melodramatic war-horse, a stage version of Alexandre Dumas's novel that James O'Neill (Eugene's father) adapted and toured in for 30 years, was just the first of Sellars' bold choices. In program notes, he proclaims that "the evening contains at least five different plays, each with its own method and tone"; cites influences as diverse as Bertolt Brecht and D.W. Griffith; and even warns...
...Sellars' rationale for starting with an Elizabethan masterwork rather than, say, a Eugene O'Neill tragedy is to rediscover the plays and grandiloquent production styles that were popular at the dawning of the modern American theater. Indeed, the next show, which he will direct, is The Count of Monte Cristo, a French romantic drama that O'Neill's father, Actor James, toured in for years across...
...pretty tight security already. Among other medicinal regimens, he doses himself every night with Metamucil, a fiber laxative. He is a confessed fiber zealot. "I've probably saved 500 lives by spreading the gospel," he says. For Lent he has given up smoking his daily two or three Monte Cristo Havanas. At home on weekends, he crews a rowing machine for half-hour stretches. Every weekday at 11:15 a.m., he begins 45 minutes of sweating in the gym he had built on the fifth floor of the K.T. Keller Building at Chrysler headquarters...