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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street...
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is rarely attempted by amateurs. Like all Stephen Sondheim musicals it has tricky lyrics, complex orchestrations and a plot that's more than a little strange. Three hours spent watching a barber who cuts people's throats and a baker who turns the corpses into meat pies may make some audience members queasy. Sweeney Todd is by far the most operatic and most complex of Sondheim's shows. The production currently at the Loeb Ex is a brilliant reminder why the show is one of his best...
...says that "The Exorcist" was an "extraordinary story that was a lot of fun. The atmosphere on the set was extremely light." Friedkin describes how after filming a particularly shocking scene, a set technician would hand Linda Blair (the young star possessed by a demon) a milkshake and everyone joked around...
...their wilderness. In the '30s, radio carried potent political messages, from Franklin Roosevelt's Fireside Chats to Fiorello La Guardia's reading of the comics during a newspaper strike to Father Charles Coughlin's charismatic hatemongering. Today that voice is still as personal as a conscience or a demon. Especially at midday, when the bass thud of a barroom rock band announces the arrival of Rush H. Limbaugh III, 41. "Ensconced in the Attila the Hun Chair at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies," Rush is ready to turn the disparate American radio audience into one big ear. "Turn...
...science the demon that will enable man to destroy the planet and himself, we ask, or the means by which a new generation can correct its forebears' mistakes? Should we learn more about the brain and how it works? What if that leads to chilling discoveries about mind control? Should humans live longer? Then the whole world will face the problem now besetting industrial nations of ever more retirees consuming rather than producing wealth. As the coming century or two brings the emergence of a world middle class, where do we commit the resources of science and medicine -- to marginal...