Word: darkest
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Clown Frankenstein (Loop Theater, Oct. 15-Nov. 14) The company much of Chicago is talking about; a clutch of clowns reimagine Mary Shelley's monster number?humor at its darkest...
...Downstairs, Sept. 16-Nov. 14) John Mahoney as the egotistical actor in British playwright Ronald Harwood's comedy. The 500 Clown Frankenstein (Loop Theater, Oct. 15-Nov. 14) The company much of Chicago is talking about; a clutch of clowns reimagine Mary Shelley's monster number - humor at its darkest. 16 Grandmothers (Sept. 18), 16 Students (Oct. 10) and 16 Assholes (Nov. 7) The Rhino Fest at the Curious Theatre Branch features one-night stands based on (you guessed it) the number 16. Monty Python's Spamalot (Shubert Theatre, Dec. 21?Jan. 16) - Eric Idle's retread of Monty Python...
...walls, so there could be other art work down there," Clarke says as he adjusts his hard hat before going inside. Years of studying the spiders, beetles, aquatic snails and other invertebrates that shun the sunlit world have led Clarke into many of Tasmania's darkest corners, often by very uncomfortable routes. So for a caver who thinks nothing of slithering on his belly along an underground tunnel just wide enough to fit his body, with only his head above water - "we call it roof sniffing," he says - the entrance he's plunging into is like a portico...
...That's where Old Boy and the Tarantino oeuvre part company, in the Korean movie's belief that guilt, not vengeance, can be the spur to a man's darkest deeds. The film's big set pieces?the devouring of a live octopus, the tongue removal without benefit of anesthetic, even a bout of lovemaking?are essentially acts of self-mutilation, in a world where Original Sin blots out the sunlight of redemption. That's not a Hollywood precept. What American movie would climax with the hero begging for the villain's mercy and licking his shoes? What U.S. movie...
...reviled. He is loved for his undeniable charm, good humor and geniality. He is reviled for excessive rigidity, indifference to those outside his political orbit and lack of reflection and curiosity. But he is also rightly respected for the way he led the country out of one of its darkest hours into a world where it seemed safe again to engage in partisan bickering and cultural warfare. His rhetoric in those grim days rose to the challenge of ordinary greatness; he calmed and rallied in ways few could have predicted. And in Afghanistan and then Iraq, he conducted historically successful...