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Because I have often found more comfort in words than in people, I turned to my Norton Anthology of English Literature on that black day after the election. I was looking for something visceral, for a howling dark poem, but instead I found “When I Was One-and-Twenty,” by A. E. Housman: “When I was one-and-twenty/ I heard a wise man say,/ ‘Give crowns and pounds and guineas/ But not your heart away… But I was one-and-twenty/ No use to talk...
Desperate Housewives is an even bigger hit. One week it outdrew CSI in the coveted 18-to-49 viewer-age category. But creator Marc Cherry's dark-comic soap was rejected by six networks before ABC bought it. Cherry actually describes himself as a big fan of the CSI and L&O franchises--at least, until they each hit their second spin-off. "Certainly," he says, "ABC's experiment with Who Wants to Be a Millionaire taught everyone something about killing the goose who lays the golden...
Nationally-recognized “Haiku” author Kate Snodgrass returns to the stage with this play about the homecoming of three sisters. Here is a dark comedy about family secrets with which every audience member is sure to identify. 7:30 p.m. Through Nov. 14. Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, 949 Commonwealth Ave. Call...
...original is back. Michael Keaton is the Dark Knight detective in Tim Burton’s adaptation of the classic comic series versus his classic nemesis The Joker. It was the beginning of the current streak of giving art-house directors the key to studio franchises, that has led to project like Bryan Singer’s X-Men and Christopher Nolan’s new version of Batman. The key is Anton Furst’s remarkable production design; there is nothing quite like the Gotham City he designed with Burton. Anchoring the magic is Jack Nicholson?...
...would be ushered into a dark basement and I would be handed drinks by a guy who I didn’t know,” Connolly says. “They would be older than I was. They would have this power. They would have alcohol. They would have essentially all the resources...