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...Better than the movie, bolder than the book, this brassy musical centers on a homosexual flirtation in an Argentine prison. Scenes of torture crosscut to film fantasies with hunks and feathers. Comebacks for star Chita Rivera, director Harold Prince, composer John Kander and lyricist Fred Ebb, plus a stellar debut for Brent Carver in a show asserting there can be no freedom without sexual freedom...
...OFFICE NBC, Tuesdays, 9:30 P.M. E.T. When this verité-style comedy made its debut last spring, it got little love from fans pining for the British original. In its second season, The Office proves it's no one's poor American cousin; it captures the absurdities of white-collar life right down to the uncomfortable office parties at Chili's. Steve Carell (The 40 Year-Old Virgin) is dependably fatuous as a gasbag middle manager. But it's the relative unknowns, particularly Jenna Fischer and John Krasinski as co-workers with an unconsummated crush, that give The Office...
...best known of his dozens of adult titles, including Mere Christianity (a collection of those radio talks) and The Screwtape Letters (a set of funny-creepy faux missives from a senior devil to his nephew), sold 843,000 copies, twice as many as in 2001. Multiple books about Lewis debut annually; this year's crop features Jacobs' biography and Jack's Life (Broadman & Holman) by Lewis' stepson Douglas Gresham. In 1947, a TIME cover story hailed Lewis as "one of the most influential spokesmen for Christianity in the English-speaking world." Now, 58 years later (and 42 after his death...
...after making a specialty of playing dark characters like Jim Morrison in The Doors and drug-addicted John Holmes in Wonderland, he's starring in his first intelligent buddy comedy. The directorial debut of Shane Black--the highest-paid screenwriter of the early to mid-'90s (Lethal Weapon, Last Action Hero), who hadn't worked in six years--Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang pairs Kilmer with Robert Downey Jr. in a very meta film-noir detective story in which the narrator is constantly interrupting to apologize for various film clichés. Kilmer plays Gay Perry, a private investigator...
...some, it might seem rare that Harvard students could be considered “long shots” in their pursuit of success in any field. Yet that was precisely the term used to title this weekend’s polished debut of a set of five student-written plays at the Loeb Ex. However, in “Long Shot: A Festival of New Plays,” the term seemed to suit the sense of irony that ran throughout the program...