Word: deviled
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...without the Harvard jokes, the script is funny--kitschy, but funny. The play is described in the program as "a late-20th-century response to the Elizabethan masterpiece," Doctor Faustus, by Christopher Marlowe. The plot has no surprises: a previously upstanding citizen and scholar sells his soul to the devil in exchange for having his innermost wishes fulfilled and must eventually pay the price for his folly...
Daniel Gerroll, as the uptight Prideau, turns in an adept, if not particularly memorable, performance. Christopher Martin, as the head demon, Alfredo Archangelo Sandiavolo, adequately invokes a devil's personna. Because of this, the first act flies by quite enjoyably...
Though the story of Don Juan as a man with a monumental libido, seems to have an inherent fascination in high and low art, he is ultimately only as complex and interesting as his interpreters make him. Igmar Bergman's "The Devil's Eye" drew us in, contextualizing Don Juan in a play within a movie. Byron's unfinished satire of the Romantic hero endlessly absorbs. Mozart created complex rhythms in music and character. Leven constructs a stock male stud from Hollywood's image repository...
...simply can't help myself. While I sympathize with Jordan's childhood dream of playing professional baseball, there isn't a major league team willing to indulge my fantasy in hopes of increasing attendence or rekindling my competitive spirit. (Although when the Arizona Diamondbacks and Tampa Bay Devil Rays get their expansion teams and further dilute the talent pool, I just might have a chance...
...TELEVANGELIST PAT ROBERTSON is dancing with the devil in Zaire, participating in that country's highly lucrative diamond trade [Zaire, Feb. 27]. I find it curious that a man who professes his life's work is preaching the word of God would have a net worth exceeding several million dollars. Oh, I forgot, those dollars are from the profits of the many corporations owned by Robertson or his church. I wonder if the revenue realized from his African endeavors will be tax-exempt because it comes from his African Development...