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Your decorating philosophy: Cover my room in stuff that will scare me when I wake up in the middle of the night drunk and unsure of where I am. Also, use duct tape to make giant dollar signs on all the windows...
...Obvious rule number 5: [The audience] needs to care about your characters." One of Ayckbourn's great gifts is the ability to create people whose flaws are both maddening and charming. Best of all is the boyfriend's mother in RolePlay, superbly performed by Jacqueline King. Perpetually drunk, she mortifies everyone with alcohol-drenched insults. Yet among the hypocritical company, her honesty is refreshing. Which brings us to Rule No. 54: "Casting is everything." Ayckbourn's ensemble is uniformly fabulous. In particular Alison Pargeter moves from sniveling schoolgirl through Bridget Jones-style lonelyheart to damaged woman, impressive in each incarnation...
...They are not casualties of a war but victims of murder. It disrespects their memories to remember them any other way. The firefighters who lost their lives in New York died in an attempt to save others, but their ultimate ends were the work of a handful of religiously drunk men whose purpose was death itself. The attackers had no tactical or strategic goal other than death. The targets, although large, were not crucial to America’s ability to fight back. The dead of last September were murdered in an act of senseless, unprovoked violence for which there...
...bomb disposal. The FBI later reported that one shoe had enough plastic explosives to blow a hole in the plane's fuselage. "Yet nobody went and curled up into a ball in the corner. Nobody started opening up minis [of liquor] and said, 'I'm going to get drunk,'" says Jones proudly. "Everybody did their...
Here's a tip: Don't get drunk and play with snakes. It seems obvious, but according to an article in the New England Journal of Medicine, a lot of snake attacks happen just that way: 98% of the more than 6,000 yearly snakebites in the U.S. occur on the extremities, most often on arms and hands when people try to handle or kill a snake; in many such cases intoxication is a factor...