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...event, Walken was calm and reflective, despite the smears of lipstick on his cheek. He spoke of his love for the atmosphere of university towns and his appearance in a play at Harvard years earlier, as well as his early jobs as a lion tamer and a professional dancer. Despite his varied resume, Walken said he was completely unprepared for the roast. “I was terrified! I’m not comfortable in front of people without a script,” he said. “I probably should have had a couple of drinks...
Superheroes, jugglers, Miss Massachusetts, a South African flag, and loud, colorful gentlemen in drag ushered Charlize Theron through the Square yesterday in the Hasty Pudding Theatricals’ annual Woman of the Year parade. Sandwiched between two actors—a belly dancer and a yellow-coifed drag queen wearing insect antenna—the Oscar-winning actress shouted to the driver of the orange Bentley convertible in which she rode. “I did the ‘Italian Job,’” she said. “Do you want me to take over...
...hated in the world around me." The translation was by Arthur Waley, a British polyglot who was also a famed translator of classical Chinese literature. Keene eventually befriended him, and years later traveled from Japan to comfort Waley in London after learning that Waley's longtime partner, the dancer Beryl de Zoete, was dying. The description of that sad meeting is one of the few truly intimate passages of Keene's book, and reveals the same sensitivity to the perishability of things - what the Japanese call mono no aware - felt everywhere in Genji...
There was also a brilliant scene in which the two watched the Setting Sun, played by dancer Marin J. D. Orlosky ’07-’08 (who also choreographed the production’s dance pieces). Slowly descending two swaths of gray fabric which reached from the ceiling to the stage, Orlosky gave a solo performance that was graceful, composed, and totally compelling...
...course of duty, Inspector Chen has tackled political corruption (Death of a Red Heroine, 2000) and human trafficking (A Loyal Character Dancer, 2002). Qiu's 2006 mystery, A Case of Two Cities, was a virtual blueprint for the pension scandal that roiled Shanghai's highest political aeries last year and led to the resignation of the city's Communist Party chief. "A cop walks around and knocks on people's doors, asks questions," Qiu says. "It's become a convenient way to write about things I want to explore...