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...feed colossal opium factories, in whose noxious environs even monkeys slump in "a miasma of lethargy." Their fields given over to drug cultivation, thousands of starving, impoverished villagers leave for new pastures as indentured labor in Mauritius, a place so remote that it is thought to be a "demon-plagued land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All Aboard | 9/24/2008 | See Source »

...rather unlikely combination of her three favorite stars: Noel Coward, Leslie Howard, and George Raft. Unfortunately, Louis was somewhat less sophisticated than Lena's idols. He had, for example, old- fashioned ideas about wifely duties. He believed in perfectly ironed shirts, piping hot biscuits, and demon needlework. Lena . . . could sing, dance, and make intelligent conversation, but she could barely boil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DANCING PARTNERS OF CHIC THE HORNES: AN AMERICAN FAMILY by Gail Lumet Buckley; Knopf; 262 pages; $18.95 | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

...Smith, whose career spanned a vigorous half-century and who's still around at 86, gave Dustin Hoffman his simian, centenarian face in Little Big Man, puffed Brando's cheeks in The Godfatherand turned 13-year-old Linda Blair into a puking, head-swiveling demon in The Exorcist. Imagine any of these films without Pierce's or Smith's contributions, and your mindscreen plays a much more ordinary movie. No sleepless night for the kids, either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stan Winston: Monster Magician | 6/16/2008 | See Source »

...Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street”—Stephen Sondheim’s big, bloody masterpiece of a musical—thrashes around on the stage with such furious glee that the idea of critique starts to look silly. Who has time to worry about little slip-ups when there’s so much murder to be done?So I mostly don’t care that Friday’s opening performance on the Loeb Mainstage, directed by Jesse A. Wiener ’08 and Jason M. Lazarcheck...

Author: By Richard S. Beck, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘Sweeney Todd’ A Sadistic Pleasure | 5/5/2008 | See Source »

Amidst a slew of recent retellings of Stephen Sondheim’s “Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street,” the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC) is returning to the black comedy’s bloody roots. The dark musical about the vengeful Todd and his accomplice Mrs. Lovett, who sells Todd’s murder victims off as meat pies to poor Londoners, will run on the Loeb Mainstage through this Saturday. A number of revivals have drastically changed the feel of “Todd,” including Tim Burton?...

Author: By Edward F. Coleman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Fleshing Out Fleet Street | 4/29/2008 | See Source »

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